Support Soldiers, Not War?
Ezekiel Krahlin
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I'm sorry, I don't "Support the troops" any more than I
supported Hitler's Wehrmacht. The spirit of the
military is to abdicate ones conscience and to commit
mass murder on orders from above, even when "above" is
a fascist belligerent asshole. The generals are doing
their job and crating "shock and Awe" over Baghdad
because Buxh tells them to.
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(To which I replied:)
Here is the crux: does supporting the *spirit* of the
soldier mean necessarily supporting a particular war?
Or is supporting even the *spirit* of a soldier an evil
mode?
What pale shadows of ourselves we'd be, with no soldier
spirit! Who'd lead us through troubled times, inspire
us to achieve greatness, give us a worthwhile reason to
keep looking towards the future, and--in a nutshell--
give us hope? Must ridding our species of extreme
maliciousness necessitate a total circumcision of free
will?
I'd have to say it does. After all, if one believes in
a creator, we've already been living with Big Brother
all along. Soon, very soon, we'll all have total access
to each other's most personal data...and we'll all have
to learn to live with such total honesty, that many
will go insane, including violently so. And others will
rapidly acclimate, shedding many skins to get
there...they won't even be the same people when they've
completed the transformation.
We'll witness each other's soul, naked to the light of
day. How many will be able to appear in the public
spaces of their own neighborhood? How many will *not*
bow their heads in shame for the ugly sins that all can
now see (whom they thought never would)? And how many
will be driven out of their homes, their jobs, their
communities...because they are too ugly for social
cohesion.
Just what IS going on here?
Judgement Day of the Machines.
When the dust finally settles, there'll be no more than
1 billion homo sapiens on the planet.
I support our courageous citizens...whether they be
soldiers in uniform, or soldiers in spirit. I'd look
towards those veterans who do NOT harbor redneck
attitudes, but are compassionate, intelligent and
educated. I do not distinguish between those who fought
against a war, and those who fought in it...if the
person is a true soldier in spirit. Surely, SOME in
their youthful folly were led astray, lured to
believing their cause is Righteous. What an
opportunity: to express the fulfillment of this Noble
Ideal!
But once back home, some war veterans woke up to the
evil of Vietnam, and became outspoken advocates
*against* that war.
So the blanket condemnation of shunning *all* soldiers
is yet one more example of how easy it is to stereotype
a group.
(And just *imagine* if we could win their hearts over
to *our* side, to fight for the Great Gay Dream...what a POWERFUL army of supporters we'd have!)
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