I’m constantly amazed at what passes for rational discourse on the internet these days. Never so much as when I visit the websites of the pseudo-intellectual veterans of the Left. The worst, of course, is that Jim Staro guy who we’ve featured before. His incoherence is a monument to his ignorance. But running a close second, is Gordon Duff of a completely directionless blog named “Veterans Today”. His only goal seems to be a frantic and constant whining about the Veterans Affairs Department for no good reason other than it’s not Heaven on Earth.
Today, he zeroes in like grapeshot on US foreign policy by proclaiming “War is Unpatriotic“. He begins by declaring acts unpatriotic before we actually became a country.
We started stealing in the 1600s, long before we were a country. Indians fed us, taught us and we sent troops into their villages and murdered them.
I’m pretty sure that before you can commit an unpatriotic act, you have to have a “patria“, a country – it’s kinda part of the word isn’t it? But, hey, what do I know? And what troops did “we” send into Indian villages?
Duff goes on to explain that those stupid founders tossed aside that great and wonderful Articles of Confederation document in favor of that corrupt and unworkable Constitution “to make sure “regular folks” would stay broke and hungry and end up fighting war after war started by speculators and profiteers.”. The guy is brilliant. But his true brilliance comes through in the next paragraph;
Long before we went to war for oil, we invaded countries for sugar and bananas.
Yeah, mostly because our Navy loved jumping into their rickety, leaky, wooden boats which required constant maintenance every minute to stay afloat, so they could travel for weeks to a mosquito-infested coast, fight disease and blood thirsty savages in hand-to-hand combat risking death at every breath so they could bring back some bananas and sugar for their cornflakes.
Dipshit.
His whole point is supposed to be that we’re wasting lives over a shit hole like Afghanistan. But mainly because we all love war and our soldiers are too stupid to refuse to fight them for us.
Nobody can explain it. Nobody can justify it. Nobody even wants it but we keep on and on as though some invisible force drove us insane. Our actions are nothing but insane. We all agree on this and are powerless to stop ourselves. If our nation was a person, we would have to be committed to an asylum for the criminally insane.
His aforementioned tenuous grasp of history (and reality, apparently) explains his self-induced ignorance.
Our new friends at The Burn Pit take on Duff in another bit of ignorance theater in which Duff accuses the VSOs of “Sleeping With the Enemy”. Personally, I think Duff has been sleeping with the gas on.
Excellent. Your point is well made and I laughed right out loud…
Sounds like he’s one of Ward Churchill’s ball washers.
Anyone who truly believes that the Indians were a bunch of “back-to-the-earth” folks who lived in peace and harmony with the earth is deluding himself. The Indians were constantly at war with their neighbors, stealing food and people, the latter for slaves and wives.
They lived a short, brutish, survival-based life, where one bad hunt could bring famine, and the loss of men or women could pose the risk of extermination of their tribe.
There was no medicine, and infant mortality rates were high. Heck, MANY folks died from simple infections or dysentery.
They were incapable of defending their lands, and we took them. End of story. For those cretins who haven’t a clue, who get all weepy-eyed and filled with “white guilt”, they ought to be slapped silly and sent packing. Or interactions with the Indians is exactly the way that nature works. No better. No worse.
And for the final smack-down, let’s remember that it is entirely unfair to judge an ancient people by the current standards. One can only judge another by the conditions and norms that were prevailing when those people existed. Anything else is projection, and the mark of a rank amateur with an (oftentimes) skewed agenda to further.