05-30-2017, 09:00 AM
(05-29-2017, 11:26 PM)Dill Wrote: I also found that disgusting. Wasn't that the same guy who lied about being shot at in Iraq?
As for the militarism--WWII was for a long time the definitive argument against war, given especially the civilian losses which exceeded military.
I fear though that nowdays so many Americans experience war through movies and video games. They have militaristic values, to some degree, but wholly untempered by actual war experience, let alone military service.
Yep, Brian Williams. Thanks god I have trustworthy alternatives: Infowars, Breitbart, Fox...
Yeah, the glorification of killing in our culture is really overwhelming and tragic.
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
