Reply #76: The military does not protect anyone. It projects force.

[JackRiddler]

You can stuff your ignorant condescension. I noticed that there are self-designated liberals and progressives who glorify the military about 30 years ago, and even then there was no swooning couch.

I DO NOT "HATE" THE MILITARY. This is your red herring response because you have nothing credible to present in defense of this wasteful institution.

I AM IMPRESSED BY THE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE NEEDED TO RUN AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER.

It is a red herring for you to imply otherwise.

Being impressed is need not contradict being honest about what the aircraft carrier IS and what it DOES. It does not defend "us," or anyone else. Its function is not to help skilled and experienced people self-actualize.

The aircraft carrier, a US monopoly, is an instrument for projecting force on behalf of business interests and unreal geostrategic policies cooked up by demented power-drunk old fools like Kissinger and Brzezinski, Obama's adviser.

It is a weapon for raining death on people who have nothing to do with me.

Rachel Maddow knows this as well as anyone. When she pays a visit to an aircraft carrier to say "ooh" and "ah!" during "Fleet" Week (Navy Recruitment Week), she is helping Navy recruitment.

The Pentagon-centered military-industrial corporate complex that arose in the wake of World War II does not protect Americans. Protect us from what? The Canadian hordes? The Mexican Red Army? The next time Japan bombs Pearl Harbor?

What they're really defending against is the threat that this country's vast resources will be spent on something productive. They protecting oil and resource interests, not me. They're protecting military contractor profits.

And you're doing the same, with your inability to see past the recruits, who decide nothing, and to acknowledge the core mission of these institutions. Every time you spout the blinding patriotic bullshit.

The Pentagon makes more angry people in distant countries by bombing them in the name of defense. Maybe we should just stop bombing them?

The US government effectively terrorized its own people for decades by engaging in the nuclear arms race that it could have ended. The US always introduced new nuclear terror technologies in advance of the Soviet Union.

What you mean to say is, they will still follow whatever orders they're given. The military will continue to train soldiers who will say yes to being sent to the next manufactured threat, whose good impulses to serve their country will be abused as they are dispatched to kill foreigners who never threatened us.

There is no significant foreign state threat to the United States. Everyone wants peace with the US, if only the US were willing. If there is a terrorist threat, law enforcement is the only possible way of dealing with it.

The empire thanks you for your ideological service as you throw out one ancient, illogical, irrelevant bullshit platitude after the next.