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jwirr

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6. Did you read the article? The article traces this back as far as the Illiad. What I think is that it

Reply to riderinthestorm (Reply #5)

Tue Apr 14, 2015, 01:09 AM

Apr 2015

is governments that go to war and to blame the little guy is really sad. That is something we did in Vietnam as well. What ennobles war are politicians, historians, profiteers and Hollywood. Not chaplins.

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Don't need chaplains to know when one is violating the Golden Rule riderinthestorm Apr 2015 #2

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So we (and I use we as meaning our government) send them to war and we are then supposed to jwirr Apr 2015 #4

Co-dependent enablers are noble eh? How about we examine the base structure that ennobles war? riderinthestorm Apr 2015 #5

Did you read the article? The article traces this back as far as the Illiad. What I think is that it jwirr Apr 2015 #6

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Hell no. Of course I see that. History is one thing but seeing what it does today is easy just jwirr Apr 2015 #9

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