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ToDay is MEMORIAL DAY...SOME OF OUR WARW WEREN'T MEMORABLE

WWI was hard-fought, yet it started out of ignoble treaty-ship. One ally aut0matically attacked the enemy of its friend. Stupid misery begat by stupid diplomacy.

The Prohibition, the Great Crash, the Depression. The only Greatness they bestowed was the Great Profit in the industries run by the oligarchic playbook. Misery, Incorporated.

FACISM. BURN DOWN OR BLOW UP A BUILDING OR TWO AND BLAME IT ON THE TARRORRRISTS. DO WE WONDER IF HITLER SPOKE IN A HOKEY DYSLEXIC GERMAN?

DAS NUKENCRENISPLATZEN. "NUKULAR". Nah. If g b could talk like Hitler, we'd be in trouble.

Eich ben lookenupyertelefonzen; that would be too much. It is too much.

Just as the (d)Depression was caused by the-lack-of-trade caused by the imposition-of-vindictictive-retalliation-by-the-allies, the 2dWW was caused by unemployment, isolation, and, yes, lack-o-trade.

War is shorthand for human ignorance and the resulting tendency to follow politicians who instructs diplomats.

The politician who cuts deals, who senses the angle of the wind, then redeals.

Another word for politician is Warlord. Period.

The last war worth the name was WWII. Everything else is copycat exploitation for profit.

If we examine WWII under a magnifying prism, you might see profit at the sinkhole bottom line, too. But at least it was a war where we may not have attacked first.

Korea and the Cold War: hysterical reaction to a real threat: but a threat that was created because DIP-low-mats and their failures.

Viet Nam, since 1935, with maybe a break for the WWII, was unnecesary: said to be for democracy and tungsten. Gulf War I and Iraq now are for pure cash and oil. Wars are for keeping our bad habits up, whereas the citizens might come to good sense if left at peace for a generation. Haiti, Granada, Panama, and a dozen others suffer for our lack of respect for demacratic principals. Puerto Rico, Nicaragua; El Salvador, Honduras, Cuba; Chile, Columbia: we intervene and interfere to advance the industry of the day, the myths of our own democratic abilities, pandered to enable our plundering of natural rescources and prostitution of human rights.

It is with some shame that we honor indvidual greatness in wars. A memorial to those who suffered for what is empire seams to disohnor thier loss. It is to say that we are proud of you for dying due to our lack of ability to impeach the war industry.

War is an industry as solid as toothpaste, and marketed the same. The sugar flavored product that erradicates decay caused by sugar.
Behave as dictator to elimenate the dictator, then to become the dictator. I'm not saying we shouldn't brush our own teeth; just don't kill to force others to buy our brand of toothpaste.

Memorialize the good in a cause that is bad.

In other words, we allow politicians to exploit the bravery of others in order to create more honored exploitees.

When I see the CEO of General Motors quit his job and join the army as an infantryman, I might believe the rationale for "bringing democracy to Nextambull".

It would be better if we got a holliday for the heroes of Peace, except that the War industry recognizes none. We do get off on days that commemorate mass consumption. What if our greatest products were Art, Science, Peace and Sanitation? Literacy and Education?

-30-bobby