Vietnam series by Burns and Novick

[Moostache]

11. One reason? THE reason...

War - especially the kind of 'war' we fight today, with drones and remote bombs and missiles as well as the human carnage of IED victims and regular enlisted men being gunned down - is ENTIRELY about $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

There was a time when even the richest and most powerful men in the nation feared being labeled as a war profiteer (Hughes, Howard,,,Goose Spruce?) yet today, we exist in a world where BILLIONS go 'missing' from the treasury and outfits like Halliburton and Blackwater line the pockets of disgusting reptiles as the sons and daughters of the poor continue to die.

Two days ago I saw a pair of twins, 18 years old...a son and daughter of friends...they were in their Marine Corp dress blues, fresh from graduating basic training and awaiting their orders for deployment to wherever sons of bitches like that asshole Trump are going to send them. I pray they find favor in the luck of the draw and that they return to their mother and father unharmed and whole...though they are certain to see things that will scar their young lives forever regardless of their physical condition.

The people who profit from war and the sale of instruments of death are the lowest form of human life imaginable. Their lives are spent in the pursuit of killing. If there were an actual god, it would behoove him/her to end these parasites from on high immediately.