[Peace-discuss] no thanks, with a grateful heart.

[Morton K. Brussel]

Good for him!  

Our kids (and hence adults as well) are brought up to honor and respect the military (as is true in most countries), so it is without surprise that there is no dearth of military volunteers, even without the financial or economic "benefits" they may receive in economic tough times. 

The answer may be to get rid of jingoistic nationalism, something hard to conceive of;  it has always been part of human nature/society/condition. It is of course encouraged by rulers. 

Love, or pride,  of where you were born, or live is something else, but unfortunately too often ends up as a kind of exceptionalism that has unfortunate and inhumane consequences.

--mkb

On Jul 23, 2011, at 10:06 AM, E. Wayne Johnson wrote:

> Anti-war Bible scholar Laurence Vance is ungrateful for the American military-
> 
> He writes:
> 
> Sorry, soldiers, I don’t thank you for your service.
> I don’t thank you for your service in fighting foreign wars.
> I don’t thank you for your service in fighting without a congressional declaration of war.
> I don’t thank you for your service in bombing and destroying Iraq and Afghanistan.
> I don’t thank you for your service in killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans.
> I don’t thank you for your service in expanding the war on terror to Pakistan and Yemen.
> I don’t thank you for your service in occupying over 150 countries around the world.
> I don’t thank you for your service in garrisoning the planet with over 1,000 military bases.
> I don’t thank you for your service in defending our freedoms when you do nothing of the kind.
> I don’t thank you for your service as part of the president’s personal attack force to bomb, invade, occupy, and otherwise bring death and destruction to any country he deems necessary.
> Thank you for your service? I don’t think so.
> 
> http://lewrockwell.com/vance/vance250.html
> 
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