Go here:
http://www.fredoneverything.net/FOE_Frame_Column.htm
“It also makes me poisonously, bottle-throwing angry…” – what a great line.
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comrade simba 
September 6, 2009 at 9:10 pm |
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I kind of like: “fetid with hypocrisy…”.
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September 7, 2009 at 1:19 am |
This last Saturday I walked up to our weekly Peace vigil to find my buddy the 70-something buddhist teacher sitting on the concrete with a zafu and his buddhists for peace sign. I fashioned a semi-cushion out of a beach mat and dropped down beside him. For forty-five minutes we sat together on the concrete as bewildered passerby stared at us and drivers waved peace signs and honked horns.
What the hell is wrong with us that the only people in an area of several hundred thousand who can take an hour per week to stop these stupid wars are some old ladies, two quakers, a seventy-five year old man and my gimpy self?
The wars will continue until we shut down the normal course of business in main street america to make them stop. We’ll pull out of Iraq and invade somewhere else. Afghanistan will get swapped for Venezuala. It doesn’t matter. It’s about somebody’s profit stream.
We have to stop that shit.
September 7, 2009 at 2:54 pm |
Pangolin – the slaves were never asked how to run the plantation, and cows don’t tell the farmer what to do.
And you know what happens to cows when they stop giving milk…
September 7, 2009 at 8:05 pm |
Cows with Guns!!!
September 8, 2009 at 8:36 am |
I just read the Fred Reed article through someone else’s link.
Great piece.
When will it end? Only when the wars “over there” become part of the public’s consciousness due to the ongoing fiscal, economic and social train wreck that is America.
Shouldn’t be too long now…
September 8, 2009 at 10:32 am |
It will end when they can’t get any more of that black slimy shit out of the ground. I was deployed to Diego Garcia back in the nineties, and when we were given our welcome briefing, the base commander told us that we were there specifically to defend America’s oil interests in the Persian gulf. The aircraft I worked on were used to patrol the gulf to make sure no “illegal” oil trading was going on at sea. I’m not sure what they would have done if they actually caught someone.
Monroe Michigan just put a 19 year old Army Ranger in the ground yesterday, killed by small arms fire in Afghanistan. His name was Pfc. Eric Hario. I wonder, where is the oil in Afghanistan? It must be there, somewhere. They sure as hell aren’t looking for terrorists, unless the terrorists are between them and the oil.
September 8, 2009 at 10:39 am |
Hah! I was wrong, not oil, natural gas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Afghanistan_Pipeline