Tuesday, September 17, 2013

The Universal Soldier

From the Trenches

a marine

12 comments:

  1. "I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers."

    "When the committee's final report was released, the Times said the committee "purported to report that a two-month investigation had convinced it that General Butler's story of a Fascist march on Washington was alarmingly true" and "... also alleged that definite proof had been found that the much publicized Fascist march on Washington, which was to have been led by Major. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, retired, according to testimony at a hearing, was actually contemplated"
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler

    A good example of why serving military should steer clear of the political world.

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    1. Especially when they disagree with you, is that it?

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  2. He died in 1940 and thus never saw the perfect illustration of a just war that our nation fought.

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    1. What is the PERFECT war professor(?)?

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    2. Jim, I believe that Greg was referring to WWII. The one where we fought and defeated a socialist named Hitler.

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    3. Our brave troll continues to twist people's words and demand that they explain themselves for comments they never made.

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    4. Well, um, let's see... What war did the United States enter just after 1940?

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    5. I've referred to WWII like that myself, more or less. What I said is we haven't had an honorable war since then, yet we have all these vets like Moonshine boasting about how they are responsible for our freedoms.

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    6. TN our lying site NRA lobbyist, these are Fake professor NRA Greg's words: "the perfect illustration of a just war"
      PERFECT?
      There is no such thing as a perfect war.
      I understand you "justify" the death of children to protect your right to own a gun, now you justify mass death and war, why?
      We had honor? We purposely allowed millions to die because we did not want to get involved, until we were attacked. That's not honor, that's self defense.
      England and France were begging us to help them in both WW I and WW II, we refused!

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    7. I said a perfect illustration of a just war. Stop lying, Jim.

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    8. Well, Jim, you can reproduce Greg's words accurately, so it is mystifying that you cannot grasp the difference between the meaning of a perfect war and a perfect example of a just war. Greg never claimed that our conduct was perfect in that war, only that the war provided a perfect example of what is meant by the concept of a just war--specifically, I believe that he meant the justice of entering it which we did in defense of ourselves and others rather than to take something we wanted.

      Could we have done so sooner and still have been justified? Yes, I think so, but that does not change the justice of our cause for entering it when we did.


      But, by all means, ignore the plain difference in your summary and Greg's actual statement and keep tossing around those charges of lying--it's pretty obvious here that you're just trying to keep them from sticking to you.

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    9. I learned from you two NRA dupes

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