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And the wealthy men were enthralled by Chris Kyle...The American Sniper
I was reading Tim Knight's post on ZH about Perfect Palo Alto, and teen suicide in America.
The heart of the issue isn't the fact that this one railroad crossing is or isn't guarded by someone. It has to do with what the kids think they have to "achieve" to be worthwhile.
This made me think about the movie, American Sniper, and the article I read in D Magazine about the subject of the movie, Chris Kyle.
There is hope. Those kids can always join the military and kill some men, women, and children that are just trying to defend their homeland from foreign invaders. This may delay suicide by a couple years, not to mention the 10% discount at Home Depot.
Who knows? If they kill enough, there may even be a book or movie deal and good times at NFL games with hedge fund managers.
I suspect that Tall Tom was referring to another ZH article in his reply:
Is 1628 the magic number? I gotta know...I gotta know.
That way they can feign remorse while bragging about the body count...
Makes for a great book and TeeVee time too.
Below is my response to Tall Tom, which I have now moved to the ZH Contributors blog in the hope it may spur some conversation on this sad matter.

Bass invited Kyle to live at his house with him while Taya finished selling their place in San Diego. He introduced Kyle to as many “big money” people as he could. And the wealthy men were enthralled by Chris Kyle. They loved being around the legend. They loved hearing his stories and invited him to go hunting on their ranches. Bass would hold an economic summit every year at his ranch in East Texas. He would kick off the festivities by introducing his sniper friends.
“I’d have Chris and other SEALs come out and do exhibition shoots,” Bass says. “They would take 600-yard shots at binary explosives, so when they hit them it’s this giant explosion that shakes the ground.” He smiles as he tells the story. “For all the people that manage money all over the world and on Wall Street to come to Texas and see a Navy SEAL sniper shoot a bomb, it’s about as cool as it gets.”
I wish I could get Kyle Bass and all the people that manage money all over the world and on Wall Street to watch this 18-minute video by Sam Richards. Maybe then they might begin to understand why Chris Kyle was killed by another veteran, and why more US soldiers are dying from suicide than are killed by the enemy.
And maybe then Wall Street and The City might decide to direct their whores in Washington and London to get our sons and daughters out of Afghanistan, which is the longest war in American history.
Now, that would be about as cool as it gets, in my opinion.
For those that think this is a derailing of the Palo Alto suicide thread, just think for a moment about Tim's point in the article on Palo Alto.
"It has to do with what the kids think they have to "achieve" to be worthwhile."
What American Sniper Chris Kyle "achieved" to become a hero is not so vastly different than what Russian Sniper Vasily Zaytsev "achieved" to become a hero.
Read these two books if you want to better understand.
http://www.amazon.com/Stalingrad-The-Fateful-Siege-1942-1943/dp/01402845...
http://www.amazon.com/American-Sniper-Autobiography-Military-History/dp/...
However, the morality of a nation matters.
The morality of a fight matters, as was taught to a young Chris Kyle by his father, and to me by my father.
It always has.
It always will.
As Bastiat says in, The Law:
Each of us has a natural right — from God — to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. These are the three basic requirements of life, and the preservation of any one of them is completely dependent upon the preservation of the other two.
We do not have the natural right to attack others, imprison others, and to take or destroy others property...even if it is profitable to do so...and even if not doing so may endanger our nation's ability to enforce the petrol dollar.
Get us out of Afghanistan.
Get us out of Iraq.
Get us out of Syria.
Get us out of Bahrain.
Get us out of Saudi Arabia.
Get us out of Yemen.
Get us out of Ukraine.
Stop the drone war.
Peace be with you.
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I am a 59-year old, retired, disabled former US Marine. I am neither a hero nor a great American and I will and I do take great offense at being so described by anyone who doesn't know me. Those who know me know damn well not to describe me that way.
I had absolutely nothing to do with sending advisors to South Vietnam. Or, deploying US Marine Air and Combat Forces, US Army Rotary Wing and Ground Combat Forces or US Air Force Air Combat forces, to combat in South Vietnam. I didn't think it was a good idea at the time and I still don't think that it was a good idea. My father, at the time a US Air Force Chief Master Sergeant (E-9) did not have anything to do with making the decision, thought it a bad idea, and after his first 13-month tour, decided it was a monumentally bad idea. Bear in mind that my Father served n the only US Navy Fleet Air Wing stationed in England during WW II. They were attached to RAF Coastal Command.
RAF lost over 700 aircraft during WW II fighting the Nazi war machine. In combat operations, you can ill afford much if any empathy for your enemy. Unless you want to become paralyzed from indecisiveness. Or, worse: have a nervous breakdown. Or, the worst outcome is you hesitate and get shot dead.
I will never forgive the anti-war movement for making the members of the US Armed Forces the centerpiece of their protests against the Vietnam war. Especially since the miserable putzes quit protesting as soon as the draft ended. It wasn't because they were non-violent or were for peaceful, elections to decide the issues that had led to war. No, they were protesting because they were cowards. They were afraid they would attract who knows what there in Vietnam: exotic sexually transmitted diseases, jungle rot, bullets, shrapnel (because your grenadier bounced a grenade off of a tree at your crotch, etc.).
Oh!!! I reserve especially great, seething animus towards Hanoi Jane Fonda. Because she was a member of the elite, and Hollywood fellow travelers, she was not prosecuted for her treason or for turning over POW letters, written by several US POWs at great personal danger, to her good friends among the Cuban, North Vietnamese and Soviet guards who tortured the prisoners, not to obtain information, but merely because the psychopaths could with impunity. The POWs thought that she would conceal their letters and accounts of daily torture, the names and approximate dates of death of fellow POWs, and other information to senior officers in the American military. I can't imagine how they felt when they found out that she had betrayed them. Perhaps my empathy for her is lacking. That Hanoi Jane does not understand why she is so despised displays a remarkable absence of empathy
I have a very, very high IQ and I have read thousands and thousands of books. My father was a career senior non-commissioned officer (SNCO) in the USAF. We usually lived on base within a long walk to the base library. The librarians used to grill me about what I intended to do with all of those adult books. I'd give them a puzzled look and say, "Read them?". Much of the subject matter covered Military History including Guerilla Warfare.
The Vietnam War was lost because:
1. We shouldn't have been taking sides in a civil war in the first place. Our tactics were poor, too. We employed tanks and armored personnel carriers in jungle areas. Armored fighting vehicles require close support from infantry to protect the AFVs from enemy tank killers, the Soviet RPG-7 is an excellent example of a very effective tank killer. I have a friend, whom I haven't seen for quite some time. He was drafted into the Army and soon worked his way up from APCs to be an M-60 MBT (main battle tank) tank commander. One day they were in a big firefight, in heavy undergrowth, supporting an overwhelmed infantry unit, when his tank was hit by an RPG. The RPG uses a shaped charge warhead to form a high-velocity jet of molten metal that can pierce many inches of rolled homogeneous armor. It blew through the tank's structure and through the fuel tank, spraying diesel fuel throughout the tank. Fortunately, for him at least, he was standing up through the open cupola hatch, firing the 0.50 caliber M2 Browning Heavy Machine Gun. The resultant explosion blew him up all of the way out of the tank. His crew burned alive while he was the only survivor. He spent the rest of his year in service, plus periodic visits to the VA hospital, being treated for the burns he received from above his boot tops-to-below his waist. Being quite familiar with agony and pain myself I can certainly empathize with his experiences;
2. President Johnson was a corrupt, psychopathic ignoramus, with no military experience and a war criminal. Need I point out that he had not the slightest idea how to fight an insurgency? He ordered the US B-52 fleet to destroy all North Vietnamese infrastructure, including that in Hanoi, completely disregarding the civilian casualties. I doubt that there was any empathy within the man.;
3. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara was similarly a psychopathic, highly-over educated ignoramus who believed that by use of the proper metrics the war could be won, he had no military experience and didn't believe that he needed any, he believed his business experience was superior to military experience, he was also a war criminal and similarly devoid of empathy, though like all good psychopaths he could fake. A show of it.;
4. Most, if not all, of the top generals were more concerned about their positions in the pecking order, a primary feature of al psychopaths no matter how much they may deny it, their seats on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, or on the promotion lists, to rock the boat regarding strategy and tactics and individual personnel replacement policy and staffing issues. Silent dissenters, assuming that there were any, should forever be ashamed of themselves for remaining silent about the poor performance of US forces, the massive casualties and deaths among civilians, both North and South, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army in Vietnam. It's a truism that the longer a war drags on the greater the suffering is amongst those least able to protect themselves—the civilians. There is at least some semblance of an infrastructure to take care of the combatants.
5a. The same ground units remained in place throughout the war. But, they were the same only in that they retained the name, organizational structure, manning levels, weapons and fire bases, etc.
5b. The policy of constant enlisted, NCO, SNCO, Junior Officer and Senior Officer personnel rotations into and out of the war zone zone, resulted in discontinuities that initially impaired and then destroyed unit cohesion. It also greatly contributed to an "us" versus "them" attitude amongst the least committed troops, frequently the draftees. They were quick to detect that their officers lacked any empathy towards them and acted out accordingly;
5c. The powers that be of the time made personnel replacements on an individual basis. Enlisted, NCO and SNCO ranks spent their entire 12- or 13-month tours of duty in the field in combat, if that was their original lot drawn. My father was a Chief Master Sergeant, the NCOIC, Non-commissioned Officer In Charge, of the US Air Force's 390th Tactical Fighter Squadron based at Da Nang Air Base, on a 13-month tour of duty. But, there was rarely little if any opportunity to familiarize ones replacement with the officers and men and the peculiarities of the particular units operations. That was especially tragic and deadly within the ground combat units;
5d. Officers in ground combat units spent 6-months in the field, to get their ticket for higher command punched, and then rotated to a 'safe' position behind the lines for the remainder of their tours. Another green officer rotated into his vacated billet out in the field. So, it's hardly a wonder that so many critical installations like Da Nang Air Base, to name one, were undermined by a system of tunnels. Did the officer feel any guilt at the end of his 6-months in the field when he turned his command over to a new, green at the gills officer? Or, did the service academies do whatever was required to remove a young officer's empathy?
5e. The experiences of replacements was similar to that of replacements fed piecemeal into US ground combat units during WW II from the replacement depots. The veterans, the survivors of many previous skirmishes and battles, didn't even want to know the names of the replacements because, "they'll be dead too soon to remember". In their defense, they had already seen too many friends, non-fiends and respected officers either seriously wounded, killed or breakdown from the relentless stress of being primed 100% of the time for the 3% of the time spent in actual combat.
5f. The replacements, without receiving realistic training and rotating in with, say a familiar platoon or company sized unit, had no friends, no veterans to look out for them, no one who cared whether they lived or died. Instead the veterans shunned them and might even bet on how long each kid might last until he gets 'it'. I wonder if anything has changed with respect to replacements since my last active duty. Whomever designed the replacement system certainly possessed anti-empathy. From personal experience, I can attest that it's one of the worst experiences that the mIlitary offers,
5g. Under the personnel rotation policy as implemented during the Vietnam War there was no institutional memory in the US Army. Reading junior officer 'After Action Reports' one can see that they learned virtually nothing in their officer training to prepare them for a guerilla war, an insurgency or whatever you want to call it. Despite a number of history books about guerilla war, "War in the Shadows" being the best example I know of personally, going back at least to the time of the early Roman Empire (e.g., Brittania, España, etc.) up to very recent times, it does not seem to have informed anyone in the Johnson or Nixon Administrations or the respective Departpment of Defense under those administrations.
6. We should have been making serious and sincere efforts to unify North and SouthVietnam during WW 2, regardless of French opposition, bringing Ho Chi Minh into the Western world and not as a colony! Likewise the same for North and South Korea. We should have had a program equivalent to the Marshall Plan to help former colonial possessions of European and Asian powers transfer to classical liberal, capitalistic, market oriented Republics whilst containing dictatorships and preventing their predations upon former colonies.
7a. In the latter days of WW II we needed Saudi oil to keep our ground, air and naval forces in the fight at their full potential.
7b. During the ground and naval battles, from early August 1942-to-late November 1942, for Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, the Imperial Japanese Navy could have sent their super battleship, from its Anchorage at Truk Lagoon down the 'Slot', to bombard Henderson Field and to sink any allied ships it encountered. As it was, even when equipped with advanced surface search RADARs in mid-1942, the American Navy did not perform well early in the war against the Imperial Japanese Navy, who had no RADAR even remotely comparable, especially at night. That's why the Slot became known as 'Iron-Bottom Sound', from all of the allied ships, mostly American, put there by units of Nihon Kaigun—The Imperial Japanese Navy.
7c. The reason they never sortied Yamato is that one Yamato round-trip would use the entire amount of bunker fuel oil allotted to their Navy each month! Soon the Japanese improvised "The Tokyo Express", a fast moving convoy of destroyers carrying, by American terminology, beans, bullets and bandages. No matter what happened during the night's convoy action they had to be far away to be safe from attack by Henderson Field's deadly dive bombers.
7d. The Imperial Japanese Navy began WW II to obtain the vast, rich oil fields of the Dutch East Indies. The US Navy's Pacific Fleet Commander made Japanese oil tankers the number one priority target for all US and Allied Submarines operating in the Pacific Ocean areas from practically the beginning of the war in 1941 and onwards. The Japanese didn't really begin seriously trying to replace merchantmen, especially oil tankers, until it was far too late in 1944.
8. The last several years of the war the US was not only supplying its allies with oil but was also operating the largest military in world history. The USAAF still had thousands upon thousands of strategic bombers that guzzled gasoline; the US Navy had 20-some fast fleet aircraft carriers that burned tons of bunker fuel oil by the hour during flight operations or when transiting through submarine infested waters; the carriers sailed as parts of fleets including fast battleship, anti-aircraft cruisers and anti-submarine destroyers that required frequent underway refueling, UNREP—underway replenishment—until they too needed to withdraw to safer waters to refuel from full tankers that stayed on station to keep the fleet downtime at a minimum; the US Navy also had 80- or 90-some "Jeep" aircraft carriers, plus 60- or 70-some given to the British, carrying several dozen gasoline guzzling air search and destroy submarine hunters with their own complements of escorts also with tankers waiting at classified locations to refuel the carrier with bunker fuel oil and high octane gasoline. There was always a lot of bunker fuel oil and refined high octane gasoline in the "pipeline" inventory.
9. President Franklin Roosevelt, in order to increase fuel oil stocks and to increase gasoline supplies, made a deal with King Saud, the Original, to protect the Saudi Kingdom, presumably in perpetuity, in exchange for a special relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia. That's why our troops have been in Saudi Arabia. To my knowledge we haven't attacked Saudi Arabia overtly or covertly using drones.
10. Those leading the House of Saud are riding a viciously and ravenously hungry beast, because in a bid to retain their hold on power, they have sought to appease the Wahhabist clerics in Saudi Arabia by funding their worldwide activities. The Wahhabis are, I believe, also closely aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood. What level of empathy they have towards infidels? None, in my estimation.
11. The main motivation behind Middle Eastern Anti-Americanism was our quick recognition and early support for the state of Israel. Now, the pro-Arabists and Pro-Islamists in the State Department and in the Obama Administration have thrown Israel under the bus in favor of Palestinians, Iraqis, Iranians, Afghanis, and so on. I truly feel for the Palestinian refugees.
12. But, Palestinian refugees are only important when Jew haters gain media access. The Palestinian are maintained as permanent refugees so that other Muslims can use them to condemn Israel. In 1948, Muslim countries expelled about 750,000 Yehudim, Jews, roughly equal to the Palestinians displaced from Israel. In fact, the Grand Mufti commanded the Muslims to leave Israel to allow the Islamic armies freedom of operations to ensure the mass extermination of the Jews. In view of the overwhelming disparity in populations and land areas, the Grand Mufti believed the Jews would be exterminated in short order. Thankfully, even the best Arab soldier was hardly the equal of the average Wehrmacht soldier, nor was he fighting for his home nor did any ideology motivate him sufficiently. On the other hand, the Jews were fighting for their right to a homeland where they might be free from European & Middle Eastern pogroms, death camps, arbitrary laws, severe employment restrictions, denial of citizenship, arbitrary expulsion, death by fire, torture, hanging by piano wire, and hatred by a host of other completely irrational beliefs.
13. The 750,000 Jews expelled from Muslim countries in 1948 were integrated into the modern state of Israel. Their integration wasn't perfect, human nature being what it is. Subsequent expulsions of Jews have also been integrated, though imperfectly, into Israeli economic and social life. But, they lives are rich beyond compare versus the Palestinians who 67 years later are still living, if one can really call it living, in Lebanese refugee camps. Even though the Islamic states possess land areas vastly greater than Israel's (Islamic States 8,766,000 sq-km vs Israel's 8,522 sq-km, 1,028.63:1) and total populations that dwarfs Israel's (Islamic States 323,470,000 people versus Israel's 8,373,000, 38.63:1) the Muslims were incapable of finding homes for what were originally "only" 750,000 refugees. Do Muslims have any empathy for their fellow Muslims? It doesn't look like it to me. The Muslims obviously have no empathy for the Shi'ite, Christian, Kurdish and numerous other victims of the rampaging ISIS murderers. Do Americans have any empathy anymore for the victims of ISIS? Have Americans any help to offer to the Christians, Shi'ites, Kurds, and others being slaughtered by ISIS? Is America capable of organizing and equipping an American Volunteer Group, AVG, to fight ISIS and prevent the wholesale slaughter of so many disparate peoples? If so, I'll join!
14. Of course, the Sephardic Jews, those expelled from España in 1492 settled in Muslim states around the Levant. When the Jewish State of Israel was created by the United Nations and recognized by the United States, unfortunately probably to keep more of them settling in the USA, the Muslim countries in the Levant summarily expelled their Jews. They lost everything, but I seriously doubt they would return to their former homes even if fully compensated accounting for interest rates and inflation.
15. That the Palestinians want to return to Israel is because they plan to violently make Palestine Juden-frei—Free of Jews. Whosever's army ethnically cleanses Israel of Jews won't make any distinctions between whether killing secular Jews driving about on Shabbat or killing only very observant Orthodox Jews in Mea Sharim. They'll kill them all and let their Adonai sort them out.
17. From the sociological perspective, one of the most difficult leadership problems is breaking your mens' conditioning against killing. In fact, most inexperienced troops will not fire their weapons even in clear cases where it's a necessity not only for their survival but for the entire unit. A good platoon sergeant is worth his weight in gold as he goes around ordering each man to fire his weapon to defend the perimeter—hopefully you have established a perimeter versus being completely overrun. It's a very difficult problem. Is it worse now in the politically correct, drugged-ADD, ADHD generation?
18. When events have reached the point where the professionals, who blow things up and break things and yes, kill people for their living, have been deployed, it is very counterproductive to be empathetic towards the enemy. All it will do is to get your own men killed. There is a time and a place for everything. The battlefield is not the place to berate your men for lack of empathy.
I know nothing about the speaker in this video. I wonder what his reaction would be if someone threatened to shoot him from inside their car? Do you think a appealing to the assailant's empathy is going to keep him from springing a big leak? I have been in that situation. I sure would not try that kind of an approach.
Thanks for posting this regurgitated Cliffs Notes History of Modern American Warfare, until Section 9, when much Kool-Aid was apparently swallowed, and thus opinion, belief, and television-news rhetoric take over for the remainder of the post.
Sam Richards says in the video that sociology begins with empathy, not personnel defense. For someone with a very, very, high IQ, you seem to have missed several, if not all of the important points in his talk.
New theme park for the moronic masses........ Empathy Land.
Just remember, ladies and gentleman, it is only make-believe.
Spoken like a true psychopath.
If you want the readers of JH to believe in a non-real, empathtic vision of reality, perhaps you should consider contributing to a different site. If seeing a hoax and a politically generated fraud for what it is makes me a psychopath, I'm in great, historical company.
So, how come we didn't get any oil from Iraq or from Afghanistan (it doesn't have oil). I was against both wars, but this typical liberal university lounge lizard equates Americans to people that stone others to death, cut off the heads of others, blow up their fellow muslims in the tens of thousands and rape and hack up any and all people. There is no moral equivalence. This is the kind of brain washing that goes on with impressionable 18 year old students and makes them hate America, because they have no appreciation for the the real evil that is radical Islam. Sociology is not a science. That video sucks!
What must be done is to institute the draft, so that all Americans will be called on to support a war. If there is no support, there will be no war.
"Bring back the draft to connect the public to the sacrifices made. Don't care if the draftees sit on their asses in the rear - just share some of the load. Bet that would put an end to lot of this foreign shit. Oh - and no student deferments and all that nonsense" - Amen to that. Perhaps patsy was too strong a word, Chris should never have been in the position he was but until "War is a Racket" is mandatory reading in high school, kids will be drawn into killing seemingly made necessary by lies screaming that we must fight for our freedom and be unquestionably patriotic. Have a strappling Marine recruiter visiting high schools should be balanced by having a one-armed, legless, horribly burned blind 20 year old veteran accompany him.....
LMFAO (sadly). And also bring some asshole war profiteer to explain what his sacrifice is and what his sons are doing for this all important effort
thank you so much for having the courage to put this out there, HH
well said!
and the Sam Richards TED.. forgot about that. great reference!
in the face of the machines massive propaganda push with the sniper film, and the obedient bleating faux / evangelical sheeple's constant re enforcing of the LIE.. its refreshing to see a challenge to the absolute BULLSHIT of the bankster war machine in the name of jebus.
Well said, HH.
Crying about oil. Well, if the Progressives (read mostly democrats but there ARE repube Progressives too) in the EPA, Interior Dept. and others would have allowed drilling here in America and we wouldn't have to have military bases etc. everywhere. In other words, limited government and free markets as the founders intended is the cure for what ails the world, but especially the USA.
Lots of countries import oil without having military bases everywhere...
And lots of countries have massive wealth disparities and other injustices, yet do not commit themselves to jihad and murder. Could it be a culture or religious problem????
Much of our "patriotic rage" is centered around the 9/11 attacks which have been used to justify all manners of illegal and criminal acts of war. But the events of 9/11 are outliers and fat tails of such significance that they need to be deeply scrutinized. One has to wonder what is going on when the main stream media claims that an attack on an office and a grocery store required months of careful planning. By extrapolating that amount of time, the planning for 9/11 by 19 men must have started around 1850. We have been had and so have individuals like Chris Kyle who ended up losing his life for something that never should have occurred in the first place. Our mad excursions in the Middle East should never have occurred; prior to our dismantling of Iraq, there were no car bombs. Some of my friends were in Iraq before it became a failed state and they as Americans could freely walk around without any regards to their safety. In the 1980s, Baghdad was called the Paris of the MidEast. Now all of that is gone and never will return, at least not for many generations. Chris Kyle did not need to be there, he did not need to kill and the fact that he was there and was complicit in murder means he was a stooge whose life was used for sinister purposes. That's right, his life was wasted, made barren by men who considered him an idiotic pawn in a game of their own evil planning. Chris was not a hero, but a patsy and he ended up paying with his life. The only way to honor his life and untimely death is to make sure that this does not happen again to young men like Chris....
Lot to be said for your post. I would differ with the patsy take though. you make do with the hand you're dealt as long as the soldiers - patsies if you like - are there they have to deal with it. the grunts that came back because of Chris' work may be patsies but they are live ones and know what heroism is made of.
Bring back the draft to connect the public to the sacrifices made. Don't care if the draftees sit on their asses in the rear - just share some of the load. Bet that would put an end to lot of this foreign shit. Oh - and no student deferments and all that nonsense
Obviously you weren't around when we had the outrage at the draft. It was described the same as you might with today's volunteer military. The draft didn't stop shit if you look at their death toll compared to Iraq/Afghanistan. I think somehow many see draftees as less a moral problem than those who might actually volunteer. Ultimately you can only win a war one way and that usually means you have to be the more efficient killer. The only way we could ever win this Muslim war, is if the Muslim people feared us more that their crazed religious leaders...just like Japan. Does anyone think the Japanese would have capitulated if we had went to build schools rather than bomb them?
Give me two dozen Kyles and I'll restore the Republic!
Good luck restoring a myth...
I fine it laughable to read posts that suggest if the US were not involved in conflicts around the world, the jihadist would not be attacking the west. That's like telling the rapist, burglar or murderer that is breaking into your house, " Wiat, you can't invade my home. I didn't do anything to you." LOL
I do agree the US should NOT be involved in so many foreign conflicts. But if you know the history of radical muslims, they would still be attacking western societies. That is their history and they are repeating it again.
Hedgeless H. Please don't worry those types. I will have a story for you soon enough.
Didn't the founding Fathers stipulate a couple of things , like ....NO standing Army....?
and ......No Foreign intervention...?
Seems to me , things would be a whole lot better if the .Gov. would stick to the program.
Most sensible post in this whole thread of selective empathy.
These brain dead, our troopian, snaggle toothed, cadaver peeing, ear slicing, finger lopping, trophy touting, uninformed uniformed, drug addled, gnat brained, baby raping, redneck trailer trash, ethnic mutt, Pentacon Kill Industries demobbed filth, addicted to the pink mist blown from a bullet blasted human skull of an extinguished life are crawling all over shithole Merca. They are "our" psychopathic militarized pigs and ravenously hungry like blood deprived ghouls stalking your neighborhood in their Homeland Gestapo uniforms just itching for the chance to suck some brains in an action replay of their rape of every country where the evil United Snakes has ever slithered for the zero 1 % that own this sewer.
It's graveyard season as the fiat petroscrip I$I$ terror backed Saudi Mercan dollah collapses in the Ponzi outhouse of the chosen racer Potemkin Village of rigged market "capitalism" and there aint no escape from the legions of hungry vengeful ghouls at your local boarded up mega mall coz that was just a Hollyweird fantasy too. C'mon you necrophililiac Pentacon scum...feeding time in the collapsing empire of death.
Bring out yer dead......
Very amusing. but you should really cut that shit with just a little regular tobacco otherwise you'll end up like Col Kurtz
Yeah Lets just get out of every war, past present and future. Turn our swords into ploughshares,ignore the rest of the world and.just peaceably plow our fields and ignore all eventual invaders. We can throw away our nukes and every piece of equipment the MIC builds. Too simplistic to be believable. The more we ignore the rampages of the iSlams, the bigger the price we will pay later. Dont make dying for one's country dishonorable Its not just the wealthy who believe the snipers are heroes.
LOL...the "rampages of the iSlams" are a pimple on an elephant's ass compared to the rampages of the U.S. government. Want a banana, monkey?
Like I've said before to comments like yours - Edward Bernays is laughing his ass off in hell!!! [as the creators of the Mossad snicker in the background]
Now go back to watching Sean Heanity with his nightly "expert", retired General Numbnuts, on FOX Neus . . . . .
You've drank deeply of the koolaid of empire and will obviously pay the price for your lack of smarts
"ignore all eventual invaders"
lolz
Ron Paul on Chris Kyle: 'He who lives by the sword dies by the sword'
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/02/04/ron-pauls-controversial-...
I thought that was interesting when I read that back in 2013.
Peace be with you too HH.
You puke at these adrenalin pumps. Like the Roman gladatorial contests and feeding of People to Lions. A revisit of the signs of a collapsing empire.
Those adrenaline pumps would cower at the magnificence of your cerebral expressions
Yeah! Neener Neener.
That's what we call a sound argument.
Well played fellow Marine.
When the SHTF and you think you want to resist the G-men from hauling you off to the FEMA camps, just remember that there will be a government sniper with you in his sights.
Make sure you dont snipe back at the G Men or you will be the bad sniper.
G-men are not invisible to the cross hair sights
He said this at a meeting in front of General Al Haig.
Falsif ied quote as Kissinger was also in the military
http://akio.tumblr.com/post/15761244430/internet-meme-falsified-quote-mi...
While insulting - it makes the point that you don't go after the lowly soldier. And Al " I'm in charge" Haig is no poster child for anything other than idiotic political guys in a military outfit
u r a hole
Holee
What an outstanding article. That sniper was an A$$ hole plain & simple. America was NOT under threat when he indiscriminately killed. Fuck all the responses from those other AHoles who can't see the injustice. A pox on you!
Erudition is not dead down under! Thoughtful post that really gives one something to think about
So many statements about killing women and children. How do you feel about women killing children? Different, right?
Yep and women killing women and children killing children - sorry what's your point
Finally watched the clip - well ok 3/4 before nausea set in. Chriss sakes, how about a take from the poor US shlub trying to pay off an insane mortgage while his kids live in the basement because of student loans taken out for a non existent job that the kid looks for in a car that is worth less than the loan. It's the bankers and the crony capitalists for god's sake. Empathy for the poor Iraqis - please. That guy has no more chance than the poor US shlub. It's the money guys versus the rest of us not nation v nation or people v people. And please dont blame the soldiers who are what they are - soldiers. don't expect them to be other than what they are. It's the leaders that need to be held to account. Kyle Bass and his kind of pussies think of themselves as Alpha males in the financial world and are trying to get the scent of piss off the real Alpha males of the military regardless of how you view military guys IMHO.
The Crusades never ended, so, war being a racket, it's easy to recruit henchmen to do the racketeer's bidding, using religious pretenses.
The Military/industrial/Financial Complex is alive and well. That said, war being the health of the State, goes to show just how sick the State really is. ALL States, at this point!
THAT is why i propose we change the name of that HUGE-into the $quadrillions-tax guzzling Pentagon bureaucracy to THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR
Go smash your head into some fucking depleted uranium. Reread your fucking first "sentence."
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