When we separate the soldier from the war it is possible to create propaganda that supports illegal wars.
It is stated one percent of Americans protects the USA. There should be less and not more to deploy them into regions of combat where we don't belong.
Jack Jacobs is a propagandist. He states if there were more Americans that served in the military, PTSD would not be such an issue in the American landscape. That is a complete lie. PTSD is not caused by society. It shows up while military personnel are in the society and have issues they didn't in battle. Having more people effected by PTSD is not the answer to not noticing it.
Secretary of Defense Ash Carter stated, "Security is like oxygen, you don't notice it until it is gone." This is a quote from Joseph Nye, (click here) a professor on international relations, writer, and political advisor. He’s a bit of a personal hero for all of the positive things he’s done to make the world a better place, and it was interesting to hear Taiwanese quote him this week....
Joseph Nye was a writer, not a soldier. I think those words apply more to "W"s administration than any war that could be fought. The freedoms removed from Americans has been completely hideous.
Osama bin Laden is dead and the war in Afghanistan is a civil war as are the conflicts in Iraq. The outbreak of anarchy in Syria in the manifestation of Daesh is a foregone conclusion a result of the illegal war of the USA into Iraq. And who is suffering the most in The West from the outbreak of anarchy in the form of Daesh? Mainland Europe is suffering because Daesh and the USA's illegal invasion into Iraq. Allies such as Turkey and Jordan have far more refugees as the result of Daesh's rise to prominence in the middle east.
The words "...the last full measure of devotion..." comes from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Does anyone want to explain how the USA Civil War relates at all to the mess the USA military is involved today?
Memorial Day is NOT about veterans. Politics takes advantage of the living when attending Memorial Day ceremonies. Propaganda and the loss of the focus on our dead.
Propagandists. That is who is speaking today on the Monday before Memorial Day 2016.
I should state the traditional Memorial Day is May 30th. This year is simply happenstance and nothing more. No one should confuse the issue with respect or the USA war dead.
It is stated one percent of Americans protects the USA. There should be less and not more to deploy them into regions of combat where we don't belong.
Jack Jacobs is a propagandist. He states if there were more Americans that served in the military, PTSD would not be such an issue in the American landscape. That is a complete lie. PTSD is not caused by society. It shows up while military personnel are in the society and have issues they didn't in battle. Having more people effected by PTSD is not the answer to not noticing it.
Secretary of Defense Ash Carter stated, "Security is like oxygen, you don't notice it until it is gone." This is a quote from Joseph Nye, (click here) a professor on international relations, writer, and political advisor. He’s a bit of a personal hero for all of the positive things he’s done to make the world a better place, and it was interesting to hear Taiwanese quote him this week....
Joseph Nye was a writer, not a soldier. I think those words apply more to "W"s administration than any war that could be fought. The freedoms removed from Americans has been completely hideous.
Osama bin Laden is dead and the war in Afghanistan is a civil war as are the conflicts in Iraq. The outbreak of anarchy in Syria in the manifestation of Daesh is a foregone conclusion a result of the illegal war of the USA into Iraq. And who is suffering the most in The West from the outbreak of anarchy in the form of Daesh? Mainland Europe is suffering because Daesh and the USA's illegal invasion into Iraq. Allies such as Turkey and Jordan have far more refugees as the result of Daesh's rise to prominence in the middle east.
The words "...the last full measure of devotion..." comes from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Does anyone want to explain how the USA Civil War relates at all to the mess the USA military is involved today?
Memorial Day is NOT about veterans. Politics takes advantage of the living when attending Memorial Day ceremonies. Propaganda and the loss of the focus on our dead.
I should state the traditional Memorial Day is May 30th. This year is simply happenstance and nothing more. No one should confuse the issue with respect or the USA war dead.
