The Capital Times: "Americans have fought and died in pursuit of noble and necessary causes. It is right to celebrate their memory. But is right, as well, to recognize that not all wars are noble and necessary. And when a war is not justified, it is time to honor the troops by bringing them home."
US soldiers bow their heads in a moment of silence, 05/30/11. (photo: Allen J. Schaben/LAT)
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Of course this is true. But the phrase "in harm's way" is simply stupid beyond belief. It is rather the peoples of poor nations like Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Syria and many others who are "in harm's way." US troops are the "harm" in the world. How can someone who kills from a long distance with missiles, cannons, sniper rifles, drones be "in harm's way."
We all need to stop using the propaganda phrases of the military industrial complex. It muddies thought and conceded the frame or the context of the discussion to the war makers. It is hard to persuade anyone to bring the troops home when you admit that there is "harm" out there in places like Afghanistan. "Harm" easily translates to terror, and the US has pledged to fight until all terror in the world is eliminated. We need to shift the frame of discourse. The presence of US troops in Afghanistan, Libya (special ops, air force, and missiles), and other places is creating the "harm." If they were brought home, the harm/terror would diminish tremendously.
Be careful about language. All journalists must know this.
We just need to get out of the way… bring our troops home … and station them on the border with Mexico. (Now there’s a country that needs help.)
jack Lohman
http://MoneyedPoliticians.net
But in the cases of Libya and Syria (but also Egypt, too) the uprisings were not genuinely democratic. They were started and run by US covert operations. In Libya especially, the US has armed and controlled the rebels from the start. See the excellent article here -- http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=3882
There are some areas no different than ours that needs to Police itself and does by getting rich.
If DEA and other Ops did their job, got powders out of USA we would not need to worry about overspending by threatening other people. Our Borders should not look like Israel. As far as I remember Mexico was here before USA as we know it.
Economy of Mexico did well because our government took our jobs away, our Unions away and sold us out. Now many of these Companies want to come back so we will see Entrepreneurial how well this works. We are the best work force in the world, cheap, more doesnot make best!
"I spent 33 years . . .being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism. . . .
I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1916. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City [Bank] boys to collect revenue in. I helped in the rape of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. . . .
In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested....I had...a swell racket. I was rewarded with honours, medals, promotions....I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate a racket in three cities. The Marines operated on three continents." -- Cited from "The Corporation" by Joel Bakan at page 93.
Our leaders must tell us plainly and especialy President Obama, why we must continue the fight in these places?
As an infomred citizen I do not know or could not tell a foreigner why we remain in Agfhanistan for the simple reason I do not know myself. I don't think many of our leaders do either. The camps that supported the attack on 911 are gone. The people who did that are dead, dying in the actual terrorist acts of that day. Osama Bin Laden is dead.
A hundred thousand troops are not needed to continue to search for those who remain. I do not know why we are fighting three endless wars. I love our young people who are the troops.
But until I get a direct specific answer as to why, I refuseto support any of these wars and I want our people home to defned us right here.
Read Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four if you want an explanation of why and how their game is played.
Until people start to wake up to the extent to which their credulousness has been exploited and abused for the profit of those who torture and kill, the wars will continue unabated.
Armistice Day was a time of cheering far bigger than the recent cheering that the war against terror was over.
After World War II when the Germans cheered US GI's packed their bags and started home. Orders only changed after the fact. Today the problem is that far more people need to cheer the war against terror is over.
The new Charles Manson's Helter Skelter world can hurt us no more. Though I wish bin Laden was alive the way Manson is.
See, A Miracle Almost Happened a world at peace.
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