{"id":28246,"date":"2012-01-09T10:14:14","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T14:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28246"},"modified":"2012-01-09T10:32:33","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T14:32:33","slug":"anti-war-drivel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28246","title":{"rendered":"Anti-war drivel"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was on Lew Rockwell, someone posted it on Facebook and despite the warning, I didn’t take antacids before reading it. But, it’s written by some doofus named Laurence M. Vance and titled “Marines, Why Do You Do This to Your Families?<\/a>“. judging by the title, you’d think Mr. Vance is asking the Marines to stop abusing their families in some manner, but no, he’s asking them why they would go to war. After plowing through the series of specials on PBS about the 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment and their tour of Afghanistan in the Sangin district of Helmand province. Apparently, they had a tough time of it and lost 25 Marines killing 470 Taliban (you know those guys who aren’t our enemies). So the abuse that the Marines of 3-5 are inflicting on their family is the fact tha they’re conducting our nations’ wars;<\/p>\n

If you just wanted to feel the trill of leading men in battle, then shame on you. If you just couldn\u2019t find a job so you enlisted in the Marines, then shame on you. If you just wanted to experience the mental and physical challenge, then shame on you. If you just enlisted because your father was a Marine, then shame on you. If you just wanted to go to war, then shame on you. If you just thought you were defending our freedoms, then shame on you. If you just wanted to die a hero, then shame on you. If you just felt you had to complete the mission, then shame on you. If you just enlisted because you thought your government needed you, then shame on you. If you thought there was just no better job than being a Marine, then shame on you.<\/p>\n

I have no doubt that the Marines of the Darkhorse Battalion fought valiantly. I am not questioning their manhood, courage, or determination. But I also have no doubt that each of the deaths of those twenty-five Marines from the Darkhorse Battalion was preventable, unnecessary, and senseless.<\/p>\n

Lance Cpl. Josue Barron, who lost an eye, a leg, and some of his close friends, at the end of a discussion about whether everything that happened in Afghanistan was “worth it,” said: “It was worth it. If I say it wasn\u2019t worth it, what about my friends that died? I\u2019m disrespecting them, like they died for nothing.”<\/p>\n

Sorry, Josue, as much as you may not want to face it, and no matter how many times you tell yourself that it was “worth it,” your friends died in vain just like those unfortunate U.S. soldiers who died in Iraq. Likewise, the only thing that the Marines in Afghanistan died for was a lie.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Shame on you for putting the Marines above your families. Shame on you for making a god out of the Marines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It must be nice to know that there are Marines out there who put their lives on the line everyday so people like you, Miss Vance (I have no problem questioning his manhood), can retch this kind of bile onto the intertubes. If there weren’t men like the 3-5 Marines, Miss Vance might have to defend himself on the street outside his warm and comfortable home, or by his roaring fire hearth and that would cut into his writing schedule, not to mention his ability to breathe.<\/p>\n

Of course, no Lew Rockwell piece is complete without a salute to chief crank emeritus of the anti-war movement;<\/p>\n

I plead with you to heed the words of U.S. Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler (1881-1940), a two-time Congressional Medal of Honor winner who came to the conclusion that:<\/p>\n

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Do you mean the Smedley Butler who was suspected of conspiring in a plot to overthrow the US government and install a Nazi sympathizer as our president? THAT Smedley Butler? But then, the linguine-spined anti-war movement has always been more comfortable with Nazis and Socialists than a democratic government protected by the US Marines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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