OK, gotta get this off my chest

[ashling]

6. That is not what I was saying

We should take care of our people, whether they are school kids that suffer because we don't spend the money necessary to upgrade our schools rather than turn it over to private corporations, whether it is people wit asthma, cancer, and other debilitating conditions resulting from our refusal to do what is necessary to clean up our environment rather than allowing corporations to destroy it, . . .

and on and on . . .

including when we send people to fight and die and worse.

I agree wholeheartedly with your last sentence . . . to which I would add:

which we do - not by harming a hair on the persons or fortunes of those "lords and ladies" but by training up and brutalizing the youth of this nation and dumping them into the hopper to be ground down in unspeakable horror in the "service" to these lords and ladies.

I am only saying that we should do right by those that we have sent.

We use the word warrior as if it is somehow honorable. The next step in that thinking is that what they do in our name is somehow honorable and even glorious. It is a false mantra which contributes to the very thing to which both you and I repel in horror and disgust.

That is all I was addressing. Only that piece of it.

It's a vicious circle and it must be stopped - all of it.


If you have warriors then you have to have wars . . . but, (oops, my 70s are showing) Suppose they gave a war and nobody came?