I can’t fucking believe the entirety of America was out for blood because it was one of the first major times foreign policy finally backlashes. So now we have to have endless and secret wars carried about by troops, special forces, and private mercenaries. We have our greedy murderous tentacles in everything and everywhere and there is no end in sight.
We fucking slaughter people. We literally killed an aid workers and his fucking children And all we can give is a “oh I’m sorry”. We have no reason to be anywhere except for extracting resources and trying to keep a population from self determination and receiving the value of their own countries resources. But oh we gotta love the fucking troops because they are somehow defending our freedoms thousands of miles away in countries most dumb fuck Americans can not point to on a globe even with the names on them.
I fucking hate that I was a part of this and helped continue this, but how do others not realize the military industrial complex and revolving door of generals in and out of service, news interviews, and being on boards of fucking military contract corporations.
Fuck this country. Fuck what it stands for. Death to America.
Do not be afraid, child. There are no countries, only humanity. You will not be held responsible for the sins of your tyrants and false kings.
This is just something I constantly struggle with. How do I treat my service? I’m not proud of it in the same sense that other psychos are, but it was a major part of my life. It shaped who I am joining right after high school. I try to use it to explain to people why we shouldn’t do this. Why we shouldn’t praise troops or have a defense budget that’s $782 billion. But being in such a conservative area in the country, it individually plays to my personal advantage to use my service sometimes. People around me respect it and are in awe sometimes, but I can’t just tell them the military is bad. They won’t understand because they don’t have the same experiences or insight that I do to the war machine.
I can’t say I would take it all back because then I would not know what I do now, but the pain knowing I contributed to the oppression and domination of people in Africa and the Middle East is almost too much to bear, and has taken me to the brink of ending it several times.
and has taken me to the brink of ending it several times.
On behalf of everyone here, please don’t. You’re more than the mistakes of your past. High school seniors are pretty well known for being morons who make shitty decisions they don’t understand the consequences of.
Just try to use this experience to improve the world around you.
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I appreciate it comrade. It’s an internal struggle that isn’t easily communicate. Comrades on the left who are so anti military sometimes can’t look past it, and no one with the military experience will understand it from a Marxist-Leninist perspective. It leaves me in a weird outlier where I feel cut off from so many different groups.
All that being said, I’m still here currently. So that’s at least something.
You are the product of your environment and the fact that you've escaped that, and are trying to do good with what you have learned, makes you a very important and brave person.
Can you explain why 主义 means "-ism"? Trying to teach myself Chinese and sometimes the way characters are combined to form words confuses me
Characters are seldom used alone, and change their meanings when combined to form words.
We're still like that. If the top brass and ruling class ghouls wanted a hot war with China, they'd actually get it. They'll settle for genocide in Yemen and debilitating sanctions of the "baddies" in the meantime.
They know we would lose in a ground war with China. That’s why we just are shifting rhetoric towards a Cold War with them.
And all we can give is a “oh I’m sorry”.
lol when did we even give that?
This last one is the only time that I’m aware of. It was the general in charge of CENTCOM
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4977557/general-mckenzie-apologizes-civilian-casualties-august-29-air-strike-targeting-isis#
We have a lot of shit to shovel. Maybe once the shit pile is moved, we can find something worth saving under it.
Here's Madeline Albright falsely claiming Saddam had WMD and calling for invasion in 1998.
Here she is on 60 Minutes, saying that 500,000 dead children were a price that was worth it. Coldly saying yes to the death of half a million children. She's Jewish. I enjoy these moments when their masks start falling off. People who get in these positions of power don't have empathy towards humanity. Read the article on 'What "Psychopath" Means' in scientificamerican com and you'll see who these people are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYagQuqK31s
Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: "We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?"
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: "I think this is a very hard choice, but the price--we think the price is worth it."
-- "60 Minutes" (5/12/96)
PNAC urges war in 1996 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3249.htm
"That strategy should aim, above all, at the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime from power. We stand ready to offer our full support in this difficult but necessary endeavor."
On October 31, 1998 President Clinton signed the Iraq Liberation Act that made it official US policy to support “regime change” in Iraq.
It should be the policy of the United States to support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq and to promote the emergence of a democratic government to replace that regime. https://www.congress.gov/105/plaws/publ338/PLAW-105publ338.pdf
