Whitee - Purveyor of Fine Beats...Provider of Lyrical Treats
Music, culture & politics. We'll also update Whitee's recording progress.Thursday, April 10, 2008
I'm really tired of this. It's a case of The Emperor's New Clothes on steroids. I'm sick of people not being able to criticize someone in the military and fawning all over soldiers to show how "patriotic" they are. Even the few people in the media I actually respect do it and it exasperates me for a number of reasons:
*Just because you are/were a soldier doesn't make you better than the rest of us. Like other "jobs" there are bad plumbers, doctors, cops, teachers, etc. I don't have respect for you just because you decided to become a soldier.
*I don't think patriotism is that great of a thing to begin with - you have citizenship in a country by chance. Luck. (or bad luck as the case may be)
*While I do not think we should totally dismantle our military right now, if our "leaders" haven't been such fuckheads for 200 years then we definitely wouldn't need to spend more than half our budget on the military.
Shall I give you an example? Good.
Read this.
Then, read this.
There's more, which you can find for yourself, but my summary is - fuck David Petraeus. His word isn't gospel. He's just a stooge for neo-con, war-mongers. I don't care that he has a uniform on. Oliver North had a uniform and we know what a dick he is. Respect is earned and when you REALLY look at what this guy is doing, he hasn't earned MY respect.
Look, what we're doing all over the world is NOT making us safer. It's doing the opposite. There are a lot of parallels to the fall of the Roman Empire here. We're focusing way too much on militarism and the control of other people. We're focusing our economy in all the wrong places. We're disintegrating from within. There has always been an elite in this country and that gap is wider than it's ever been.
Our soldiers have volunteered to be there. I don't see it as noble. I'm sorry. I would rather "fight" for my so-called leaders to do the right things, then a military would be less necessary. It's the same as police. If our "leaders" stopped fucking with poor people we would have less need for police officers.
I said less, not complete.
Oh, so my conclusion is: fuck David Petraeus.
*Just because you are/were a soldier doesn't make you better than the rest of us. Like other "jobs" there are bad plumbers, doctors, cops, teachers, etc. I don't have respect for you just because you decided to become a soldier.
*I don't think patriotism is that great of a thing to begin with - you have citizenship in a country by chance. Luck. (or bad luck as the case may be)
*While I do not think we should totally dismantle our military right now, if our "leaders" haven't been such fuckheads for 200 years then we definitely wouldn't need to spend more than half our budget on the military.
Shall I give you an example? Good.
Read this.
Then, read this.
There's more, which you can find for yourself, but my summary is - fuck David Petraeus. His word isn't gospel. He's just a stooge for neo-con, war-mongers. I don't care that he has a uniform on. Oliver North had a uniform and we know what a dick he is. Respect is earned and when you REALLY look at what this guy is doing, he hasn't earned MY respect.
Look, what we're doing all over the world is NOT making us safer. It's doing the opposite. There are a lot of parallels to the fall of the Roman Empire here. We're focusing way too much on militarism and the control of other people. We're focusing our economy in all the wrong places. We're disintegrating from within. There has always been an elite in this country and that gap is wider than it's ever been.
Our soldiers have volunteered to be there. I don't see it as noble. I'm sorry. I would rather "fight" for my so-called leaders to do the right things, then a military would be less necessary. It's the same as police. If our "leaders" stopped fucking with poor people we would have less need for police officers.
I said less, not complete.
Oh, so my conclusion is: fuck David Petraeus.
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