I Don't Owe the Military Anything

Lewrockwell.com ^ | January 29, 2004 | Brad Edmonds

[sarasota]

Obviously has unresolved attention-deficit issues between father and son.

[MEG33]

Well said,ladtx!

[NotQuiteCricket]

And I don't think that Americans truely hate foreign countries, we feel sorry for them, pity them, hold them in contempt, disdain, scorn, and a variety of different shades along the same theme. Americans are bone deep convinced that they are the best of the best, and the rest of the world is in a sorry state of affairs, because they are not American. When Americans learn to hate en masse, then we will be in trouble.

[cyncooper]

This was a tactic used by the government to focus public hatred abroad in an effort to make them ignore tyranny at home.

I see...so 9/11 was part of this diabolical plot and was really an expression of the "tyranny at home"?

Ye Gods!

Lord, grant me patience with idiotic rantings and ravings from the clinically insane.

[MEG33]

Hogwash!

[cyncooper]

Why don't you pluck out and highlight one of the "good points"?

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Agreed. Speaking for my family ( sharing the same last name as this Brad Clymer, I hope there's no relation );

My father : 2 years US Army, 21 years USAF

My brother : 20 years USAF

Myself : 8 years USAF

[Conspiracy Guy]

Am I misreading or is comment 1 yours? The author of the tread and the author of comment 1 are both idiots.

CG

[cyncooper]

I confess I didn't closely read this garbage, either, but the poster's comments...whew boy.

[joesnuffy]

You and me owe those wounded in combat Brad...you are just too selfish and greedy to pay up...without pitchin' a fit...
You ought to do some volunteer time at a VA hosptial Brad...on the spinal cord unit or with the blind vets or amputees...
Naw you are probably too self involved and arrogant to even consider such 'servitiude'
CIA ..perfumed pimp

[shiva]

My father served 25 years in the Air Force... running accounting and finance operations, and was so successful that even as a lowly major, two- and three-star generals sought his advice and ignored his bosses.

Chit! I'd stay 25 years myself in that 'cushy' desk job. And what's 'lowly' about a major?

[anniegetyourgun]

Amen.

[TonyBanks]

He really does try to fit in too much, but here's the main point, as I see it.

It is much more plausible that the military is merely a tool for Congress and the White House to enact their foreign-policy desires. "Defending American interests abroad" explains the last 200 years far better than "defending freedoms at home." Unfortunately, Congress and the White House lost track of the fact that entangling alliances with none, and free trade with all, furthers individual Americans' interests more successfully than the policy we've embraced since Jefferson: Entangling alliances with whomever, free trade only with those with whom we have entangling alliances.

With that, I certainly agree.

[Gefreiter]

I think this person raises some interesting points, but he does it in such a caustic manner that it can only inflame readers, not engage them.

I am curious about the "40 years" of bombing people in the Middle East. What American military operations have been ongoing in the Middle East for 40 years that involved bombing?

Is this author really that ignorant of military operational reality and history generally, or just using provocative language for its own sake?

And BTW, I served. So did lots of other people. Lots didn't. So what?

[dakine]

I'm not touching this one...

[veronica]

Another monkey at Lewrockwell demonstrates that he can play with his own feces. What a perverse audience they have.

Particularly the nutters at so-called Libertarian sites where Jewhatred is rampant.

[brownsfan]

"Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whose gonna do it? You?...

My existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. I know deep down in places you dont talk about at parties, you don't want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline."

-Col. Jessup (A few good men)

[ChadsDad]

At least this guy is for tax cuts!

[MEG33]

Right.This article proves we are free to write anything.

It reminds me of Tim Robbins complaining about lack of freedom to speak,being muzzled, while giving a speech to the National Press Club .I was watching it on CSPAN.I really took him seriously.

[veronica]

I see...so 9/11 was part of this diabolical plot and was really an expression of the "tyranny at home"?

Yes! 9-11 was just the excuse Bush and Ashcroft used to place their jackboot on the neck of America!!! (/sarcasm)