Wednesday, July 27th, 2016
Stephan: I really like this essay, and I agree with it. A man like Dwight Eisenhower would be appalled at what we have become.
Why has this happened? I believe it has happened for two reasons: First, because very few politicians are veterans. Of the present members of Congress only 20% of the Senate and 18% of the House have or are serving in the military; and under 4% of the staff. An even smaller percentage of that small percentage have been in combat, or even in an active war zone. The vast majority have no idea what war is like, and what it does to social wellness. Second, because the Congress has been corrupted by money in a profit first social structure, and war is incredibly profitable for what Eisenhower called, "The military-industrial complex" corporate world the Congressional corruption is particularly great there.
And we are going to reap what we have sown. That's my prediction, and it is already happening.
A man holds a child in the window of a shelter at the Zaatari refugee camp in northern Jordan, Sunday, June 19, 2016. Since the start of the Syrian war, 4.8 million people have fled the country, with 655,000 taking refugee in country, 80,000 of which reside in Zaatari, the largest of Jordan’s three refugee camps.
Credit: AP Photo/Sam McNeil
I recently dug my mother’s childhood photo album out of the depths of my bedroom closet. When I opened it, I found that the glue she had used as a girl to paste her life in place had given way, and on many pages the photos were now in a jumble.
My mother was born early in the […]
Very easy to eliminate. Re-activate the draft for all qualified males and females. This will really perk up interest of the military industrial complex. It will also eliminate the present foreign legion, mercerinary military that now exists !
Unspoken in the current election cycle is choice between empire and not empire…. but perhaps that is only my imagination. Hillary: empire; The Donald: empire ; the Bern…. quiet on the subject, not wanting to open too many fronts. ‘No Supid Wars’ by the Tumpster has a sweet ring to the Sanderites, but what does that mean? Smart Wars. Ahhh. Robot fought. Our own obsequious democratic cowardice complete with drone assassination teams. Oh, we have that already. We have not declared war in 75 years, as required by the constitution which over 20 million fellow veterans have sworn to protect.… Read more »
Well said, thanks for your food for thought…