For Empire or Vocation, Ever Forward!

[kalian]

http://www.militaryweek.com/kk030804.shtml

Note author: Karen Kwiatkowski, Lt. Col. USAF (ret.)
Many will remember her as the brave officer who disclosed what the
neocons were doing within the corridors of the Pentagon...

All 129 members of National Guard Company B, 3rd Battalion, 116th Infantry, have been called up for active duty. My Shenandoah County, Virginia, neighbors left this week for specialized training at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Most will go on to even warmer places. Probably Iraq, maybe Guantanamo Bay, maybe Afghanistan. Their motto: "Ever Forward!"

The farewell scenes are being played out, quietly, all over the country this election year. These private moments of anxiety mixed with love of country and pride in serving it are common today – but they have been blessedly rare in American history. The 116th was last activated was 1944. It was another world war, another global conflict of good against evil, another war that had to be fought by Americans. Today's deployments are for police duty or insurgent suppression in Iraq or Afghanistan, or for guard duty in Guantanamo.

In 1944, the rest of the world prayed for us, and opened their hearts and homes to Americans. In 2004, much of the rest of the world sees only rapaciously bullheaded neo-colonialists. Sixty years have passed, but somehow the vision of most of its inhabitants has remained 20/20. I guess we should be grateful for that.

I missed the farewell ceremonies in the county seat, because I was in New York City to tape a segment of the History Channel's "Hard Target." In preparation, they gave me a copy of a new book that explains our neoconservative foreign policy, the same foreign policy that mobilized my neighbors for the next two years. Former Bush speechwriter David Frum and former Defense Policy Board Chairman Richard Perle drafted a little black book and titled it "An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror."

...MUCH more...

Excellent read!

[buycitgo]

1. can't believe NOBODY responded to this!

thread on her and Hard Target up today

this link from her is fanTAStic, as are just about all the columns archived at Lew Rockwell

again, the question needs to be axed: why is she never on TV, except for that aborted appearance on Faux, in which they supposedly cut her mic?

want to hear a great interview with her?

http://www.thisishell.com/archives_2003.html

scroll down to the August 9 show.....that was the first time I'd ever heard of her......turned on during the interview, and was STUNNED at the stuff she revealed.

[buycitgo]

2. from first link, her interview on NPR, about a month ago

http://www.npr.org/rundowns/segment.php?wfId=1694399