{"id":30138,"date":"2012-05-27T08:27:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T12:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30138"},"modified":"2012-05-27T08:27:56","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T12:27:56","slug":"what-memorial-day-means-to-ny-times-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30138","title":{"rendered":"What Memorial Day means to NY Times readers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cortillaen sends us a link to an article in the New York Times<\/a> which highlights the saddest images it can as their Memorial Day weekend remembrance, One image is probably one you’re familiar with – Katherine Cathey, camped out overnight by the remains of her husband LT James Cathey on the night before his burial. Cortillaen warned me in his eamil to not read the comments, but, I couldn’t help it;<\/p>\n

At the end of the article you ask an incredibly important question: What can I do?<\/p>\n

What can we do? We can push our state and federal representatives to more heavily subsidize higher education so that we can have a much larger percent of the population with fully developed intellects. <\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Is there any doubt that with a more educated, more discerning, more deliberative voting population that George W. Bush would have ever been elected? A man that lacked the most essential quality that is necessary in United States President, i.e., intellectual curiosity.<\/p>\n

An educated people would have more broadly pinpointed his lack of intellectual curiosity and therefore would have concluded that he cannot handle the nuance of critical decisions because he lacks the self-derived onus to investigate these nuances. The Iraq war would never have happened and future wars can likewise be avoided. That is what we can do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Did you resist paying your taxes to fund these wars? Did you demonstrate, speak out, write to your political leaders, write letters to the editor? Did you, and do you, do everything you can to prevent needless wars? If the answer is yes, I salute you. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Iraq war is especially tragic, started by a bunch of psychopaths who do what psychopaths do: lie, self-serve, and enjoy the spectacle of the death and destruction they cause.<\/p>\n

Read Robert Hare’s book on psychopaths, Without Conscience, to understand how the Iraq war happened, how Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld came to power, how Little George was so manipulated; how dangerous Romney is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nowadays, is the decision to enter the military merely and solely an economic one? If so, one will surely never see the top 1% submit to military service and go in harm’s way.<\/p>\n

What “American values” are worthy of this sacrifice? Do those values include “maximization of shareholder value”?<\/p>\n

Is it to be regretted that “corporate persons” are unable to go in harm’s way on behalf of their (financial) interests like flesh-and-blood human “resources” and “capital”?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I remember the old anti-war phrase from the 60’s: “What if they gave a war and nobody came?” It’s a good question, isn’t it? Bush and Blair got America involved in a senseless war based on lies. There wasn’t even a draft in place. Why do men so willingly march off to kill on command in behalf of the Anglo-American oil cartel? Very sad indeed. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He was sent to his death (by men who evaded military service themselves everyone of them) on the otherside of the world to kill poor people and farmers.<\/p>\n

Ask his widow what she thinks of the war<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Every solider, in every war, who is not sent because s\/he is a literal slave, goes because s\/he chose to go. If the soldiers would refuse to fight, we would have no war. War happens because people think war is exciting and noble, or necessary, or inevitable.<\/p>\n

The USA had no business going to war in Iraq and shouldn’t be in Afghanistan. The POTUS at the time lied, straight forwardly and stupidly, lied. I knew it then and so did many of my friends. Nonetheless, many people, men and women, chose to go to these places and fight. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And then they wonder why there’s a gap between the military and the people they’re defending in this country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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