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We can't justify it, we can

BevD — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:48:28 +0000

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We can't justify it, we can only rationalize and explain it.

And to think that I'd grown

Scientific — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:24:01 +0000

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And to think that I'd grown used to skipping his commentaries, and followed suit last night when I watched. My mistake.

And we wonder why those men

GregorZap — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:26:59 +0000

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And we wonder why those men and women from WWII were the greatest generation?

If all we do is memorialize the dead, we guarantee their lives were lost in vain. We bury the ideas for which they fought. Something greater then themselves, is replaced by merely wasted humanity. Nothing moved forward.

It is time to come to terms with the fact that today's wars, and very likely most wars througout history, are fought to perpetuate the wealth of the merchants of death. Only now we have privitized the Grim Reaper's orgy to include vendors of even the most distant accessories of the soldiers, right down to cooking their meals and cleaning their latrines.

Come join the Carnival!!! It's the next frontier of unbridled capitalism.

I don't think the people that

Dorn76 — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:35:09 +0000

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I don't think the people that wish harm to the USA in Afghanistan for example, have any interest whatsoever in playing chess, or discussing rationally their differences.

Oleeb's post is excellent, though. Memorial Day needs to be less of a day of solemn remembrance and more of a day of empassioned activism to prevent War from happening in the 1st place.

Great post, oleeb! You have

SleepinJeezus — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:23:16 +0000

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Great post, oleeb! You have hit upon a point here that has been a puzzle for me: How did we ever decide that the proper way to settle disputes between peoples/countries was to send our young men & women into a barbaric "kill or be killed" contest with the opposing sides' young men and women? Wouldn't a square-off between chess champions from each side actually accomplish the same objective (picking a winner and loser) with considerably less loss of blood and treasure?

I know this sounds facetious, but think about it. How can we continue justifying the wholesale slaughter of human beings as a means of settling disputes? We do not allow it in any other circumstance. Why, then, is it acceptable on such a grand scale in disputes involving nations?

Brilliant. Many of the same

Jason Everett Miller — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:22:23 +0000

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Brilliant. Many of the same thoughts that occurred to me amidst all the flag waving yesterday. Why can't we honor the people who's lives were taken in war by finding a way to make war an anachronism, an evolutionary artifact, like vestigial tails or the appendix?

Too literal. He means a

Jason Everett Miller — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:18:42 +0000

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Too literal. He means a societal state of mind that makes war an anathema, much as religion does with other things.

Thanks for sharing Andy's

Maggie — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:32:38 +0000

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Thanks for sharing Andy's thoughts with us. The idea that Memorial Day would be well spent dwelling on ways to prevent the horrendous loss of life through the years..........what a perfect day that would be -

Thanks. Here's to the day

bluemeanie — Tue, 26 May 2009 07:19:42 +0000

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Thanks.

Here's to the day when Department of Defense is just that, and not Orwellian doublespeak.

Peace.

People who have participated

bheartlib — Tue, 26 May 2009 06:00:41 +0000

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People who have participated in war are the people who want to avoid war. Cheney/bush never participated in war. They worked like hell to start one.