Smedly Butlers
War is a Racket (link to PDF of the second highest decorated US marine of all time, read it) opened my eyes and broke my heart at the same time.
Saw the effects of our modern overseas war system take its toll on my own people and for what
How many of us are actually safer at night because of the bombs dropped on a place you cant even point to on a map?
I dont mean to doom, I just care about our people that bear our arms so greatly and I feel we have as deep and obligation to them as they do to us, how dare we send them into these fights without any defined goals other than "fuck em up"
"It is unworthy of a great state to fight in something which does not concern it own interest. Gentlemen, show me and objective worthy of war, and I will go along with you. It is easy enough for the statesman (or forum poster) to ride the popular wave from the comfort of his own fireside, making thunderous speeches (posts) from the rostrum, letting the public sound the trumpets of war, and leaving it to the musketeer, bleeding out his life's blood in the snowy wastes to settle whether polices end in glory, or in failure. Nothing is simpler. But, woe to any statesman, who, at such a time, fails to find a cause of war, which will stand up to the scrutiny, once the fighting is over."
-Otto Von Bismark, Iron Chancellor