In Memoriam, 2017, by Robert Gore

Posted by straightlinelogic 7 years, 6 months ago to Government
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On Memorial Day, America remembers and honors those who died while serving in the military. It is altogether fitting and proper to ask: for what did they die? Do the rationales offered by the military and government officials who decide when and how the US will go to war, and embraced by the public, particularly those who lose loved ones, stand up to scrutiny and analysis? Some will recoil, claiming it inappropriate on a day devoted to honoring the dead. However, it is because war is a matter of life and death, for members of the military and, inevitably, civilians, that its putative justifications be subject to the strictest tests of truth and the most probing of analyses.

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  • Posted by Dobrien 7 years, 6 months ago
    Thanks Robert,
    Your essay is spot on. The military industrial complex including the shadow govt. has been involving us in conflict since WW1. Most of the time it sold to us as defense of our freedom and way of life. Funny that in the last hundred years the only real threat to our freedom and way of life
    Has been from Washinton DC. Wake up Americans and vote these Kakistocrats out and then prosecute the "untouchables"!
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