WWII Vets...Your comments?

From an email from Leif:

I haven't the faintest idea what WWII vets would think about what I wrote, but I'm pretty sure they'd agree that the maimed and destitute vets from Vietnam have been given a less than square deal. They were told they had a patriotic duty to put their lives on the line in a conflict those in charge knew perfectly well from the git-go was a scam, and they were told they were heros (by those in on the scam) all along the way. Then when the insiders figured the scam wasn't useful anymore, they said they'd won, and they left -- the country they said they were protecting from those commie badies, and they left the young men and women they scammed with that patriotic bullshit and left them without the resources to live decent lives. I suspect those WWII vets would agree with that.

I suspect they'd agree that WWII isn't analogous to the nonsense, and losing, testosterone contest in which our peanut president and his cohort have engaged other people's sons and daughters, nor to the previous felony that was lost from the first day because countries do not win wars of aggression in other people's forests and deserts, unless they're Genghis Khan, and we aren't and won't do what's necessary to become him, even with an oil prize at the end.

If those WWII vets are, in fact, the greatest generation, they're smart enough to distinguish a scam from a legitimate war, and they know perfectly well that the last legitimate war ended in 1945; with a two-minute argument, maybe, about the early fifties.

There are hundreds of people in the United States who would still have their sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, husbands and wives if people understood that when the flag whips in the breeze and that song plays about bombs bursting in midair and raining flaming debris on women and children below, the first thing one with a functioning IQ does is ask, Against whom, For what reason(s), For how long, and Who benefits. And if the answers, based on dispassionate information sources, don't satisfy, run like hell.

I don't know if WWII vets would agree with me on that. I think maybe they would. People who have fought in wars are a lot smarter about those kinds of things than are people who have not.


Leif

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