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

[Jenifer Cartwright]

Good post, not that most Bible scholars are reluctant to glorify and/or support violence... --Jenifer

--- On Sat, 7/23/11, Morton K. Brussel <brussel at illinois.edu> wrote:

From: Morton K. Brussel <brussel at illinois.edu>
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] no thanks, with a grateful heart.
To: "E. Wayne Johnson" <ewj at pigs.ag>
Cc: "pea >> 'Peace-discuss'" <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
Date: Saturday, July 23, 2011, 12:22 PM

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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