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Gratitude Attitude?
Here’s my letter (needless to say, not published) to Dear Abby from a few weeks ago.
Dear Abby:
I couldn’t disagree more with “Proud Mom in Overland Park,” and with your reply to her.
The idea that we owe “gratitude” to members of the armed forces is baffling. The U.S. military travels all over the world, acting in our name, shooting and bombing innocent people who have never posed any threat to us.
How is this of any benefit to the American people? If anything, it makes us less safe, by fueling violent resentment around the world.
No, I don’t think members of the armed forces should be “cursed and reviled” either. They’re mostly victims, who’ve been tragically deceived by government propaganda.
I used to be a strong supporter of U.S. troops and U.S. military action myself. Then I gradually started to learn more and more about what the military actually does and how little it adheres to its supposed mission of defending American liberty.
I urge you to educate yourself and your readers on the actual causes and effects of U.S. foreign policy; two good places to start are Jonathan Kwitny’s Endless Enemies and Chalmers Johnson’s Blowback.
UNGRATEFUL IN ALABAMA
Roderick T. Long
Shoeless, Metal-free, and Obedient
Whenever I see this ad –
– all I can think is: “you’re such a professional, you always have your lunch money ready for the school bully ahead of time.”
Ours Not to Ask, Ours Not to Tell
Laurence Vance explains why gays and lesbians shouldn’t serve in the military:
Should gays and lesbians serve in the military? Once in the military, they will be expected to blindly follow the orders of their superiors and not exercise independent thought. They will oftentimes not be in a position to know whether an order is in fact dubious or immoral. They will be expected to, without reservation, drop that bomb, fire that weapon, launch that missile, and throw that grenade, as well as directly kill people and destroy their property.
Read the celý piroh.
A Slightly Less Unknown Ideal, Part 2
Sheldon’s American Conservative article on left-libertarianism is now online.
How Roger Pilon Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Empire
Bradley Manning and Julian Assange should be treated like a thief and a fence respectively, because our rulers need to conspire secretly with each other, and it would be gauche for the rabble to inquire into the doings of their betters. Thus speaks the director of Cato’s Center for Constitutional [sic] Studies. (CHT Walter Grinder and Stephan Kinsella.)
By the way, a special prize to anyone who can figure out how to make sense of the word “duplicity” in Pilon’s final paragraph.