Posted on 09/25/2010 1:26:02 PM PDT by Edisto Joe
Illinois Professor, David Green, on the USA...USA chant at a recent football game.
...The overwhelmingly white, privileged, Block-I students should be ashamed of their obnoxious, fake-macho, chicken-hawk chant, while poverty-drafted members of their cohort fight and die in illegal and immoral wars for the control of oil. University administrators need to eliminate from all events such “patriotic” observances, which in this country cannot be separated from implicit justifications for state-sponsored killing.
David Green, University Academic Professional
In rebuttal I offer a simple note posted on 9/11 to a United States Marines web page under "Notes From The Field." It is a message to the folks back home from, LCpl Francisco Reyes, currently serving on a remote combat outpost in Afghanistan.
"This deployment demonstrates just how severe times can be when one doesn't feel comforted by the things we are used to. But it’s the fact that deployments like this symbolize our freedom; To fight for what we rightfully respect and honor, not just for the Marines and Sailors, but for the ones who gave their lives in the fight for freedom, for our loved ones that never saw it coming...on the day of 9-11. Something that hits home doesn't dictate who we are, but what we are made of. Afghanistan isn't just another fight, but it's one I'm willing to endure, to ensure that my loved ones are safe."
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Professor Green is not too bright, is he? The military hasn't DRAFTED anyone in years! Those who VOLUTNEER to join the military know exactly what they're doing, and exactly what could happen to them. They are also the best trained military force on the planet, and thousands fewer have died as a result of that training. I'd think they deserve some strong, vocal support from everyone, especially goobers like Prof. Green who's ignorant rear end is being protected by them, but he's too busy harping on the fiction that we went to Iraq and Afghanistan to 'control oil'. If that's the case, why are we still paying through the nose for crude oil, and as a result, gasoline?
Betting that the idiot prof is using this term to imply that the "poor" join the armed forces because they have no other options. We know that's not true.
Statistically our modern armed forces are the best educated recruits in history. You can't enlist in the Army without a high school diploma or GED, and it only allows 15% of recruits each year to be GED.
Hopefully we aren’t a country that types in all-caps either.
If you want proof that socialists are preaching in our universities, look no further than Prof. Green!
STATE SPONSORED KILLING!! Well, let’s see Mr. Green... illegals cross our borders and receive free housing, free food, free medical care and wind up crowding our prisons, having committed crimes like murder and rape. Isn’t this the result of “state sponsorship”, especially as states which try to STOP this nonsense are PREVENTED from doing so by the Hussein regime??!!! And blacks, who for 60 years have been supported from cradle to grave by taxpayers...14% of the population responsible for at LEAST 50% of reported crimes, many of which are MURDER, isn’t THAT state sponsorship??? Sorry Mr. Green, but your screed just doesn’t stand the test of common sense. But then, how NEW is that for those of your ilk.
We need more `volutneers’!
Anyway, bravo to our brave fighting men and women.
And this David Green creep needs to go suck on a latte.
;^)
Green needs to review his facts. Whether you agree with the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, they are legal wars. IF he can prove that these conflicts are illegal, he needs to file a legal suit. As others have pointed out, we do not have a draft. It is an all volunteer force in which many will receive educational benefits. It is a way out of poverty. Whatever happened to free speech? It seems that Green only believes that he has the right to express his views, but those horrible patriots do not. Is Green the best that Illinois has to offer?
If the war is for oil, where the hell is all the oil? Why the hell would we go all the way to the middle east, risk blood and treasure, the lives of our noblest citizens and years worth of deficits when we could take over Mexico or Canada, neither of which have military forces worth speaking about in comparison and are right next door?
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