I cannot remember a period since my early memories of WW2 when I have seen such casual distribution of lies and smears — through the major TV sources of information for most Americans trying to make political judgments as to how they should vote in the national interest and that of themselves and their families.
We fortunately have a highly intelligent and caring president in the precarious times of economic disaster mustered by the Bush administration and his obsession with ‘wars’ to be fought with our over stressed military — more returning soldiers committed suicide this past month than were killed in both Iraq and Afghanistan!
Needless to say there is more at work here than simply Post Traumatic Stress. Killing innocent people — or even enemies — does things to people of conscience that haunts them to the point of taking their own lives!
Even Obama does not seem to see that there are no military answers to our problems now. We live in a globalized economy and our competitors who abuse their own workers are stealing our jobs from us. There is no simple answer to these job losses apart from using national funds to put our own back to work and pressuring such as the Chinese who are manipulating our job markets.
Worst of all are the treasonous actions of our ever more right wing Republicans who lie and smear their Commander-in-Chief under more pressure than even Roosevelt who had his Depression and ‘wars’ separated by a decade rather than compounding our national disasters in the making. I could not believe the other day learning that we have our military in 150+ countries tying down there about 1/3 of our military forces. Needless to say these countries do not love dominance by the American military although they don’t mind the financial benefits we pay them for the privilege. That is where our jobs have gone and where are deficits are situated in massive amounts.
I read a variety of sources daily. But rarely do I see our TV — main source of public information — telling things as they really are. We are being collectively conned as a nation by our super rich and things will now get far worse thanks to our Supreme Court’s blank card for our corporations to use their massive funds to elect their own lobbyists!
I see bad times ahead for our fading nation.
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“A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope.” (Livy cited by Machiavelli)
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Ed Kent [blind copies]
6 users commented in " Blogging to Try to Correct the Smears and Lies "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackPlease, please come out from under that barack. Jobs are being handed over seas by the corrupt unions and the equally corrupt and treasonous democratic gov’t. I too see bad times ahead until the Republicans take back control and stop the hemorrhaging of borrowed money.
How can you be “correcting the smears and lies” about anything military related?? Are you in Afghanistan or Iraq, Mr. Kent. Of course you are not…you have not the intestinal fortitude to ever present yourself in the open, spewing forth the Anti-American Anti-Military hate that you attempt to spread daily under the guise that it is “truth”.
If you did have a single ounce of manhood in you I would challenge you to tell one of our fighting men that they are “Killing innocent people” and see where that gets you. I would like to say that you’d be picking your progressive, globalist keester up out of the dirt, but the truth is that our military men and women are too professional to do such a thing. I must admit that they are more likely to tell you that they are proud to continue fighting in order to protect your freedom to express yourself in such an ill-informed manner.
Ultimately, that is why I must retire from the Marine Corps in a few more years, as I am about at my boiling point with all the cowards like you, who like to spout off about a lot of issues you know nothing about.
Oh, I know, Mr. Kent…you are a retired “professional philosopher” and college professor…you make sure you advertise that with every uneducated post you make. To some naive folks, that may pass as making you an expert in all of the areas you pontificate on daily, without any proof or evidence ever being displayed. To those of us who actually have knowledge in the areas you feel it so necessary to post every day about, you are a joke.
I suppose it’s understandable why you would be a little bitter in your old age, as a “professional philosopher” can’t have much pride in their accomplishments in life. It is an occupation which spends it’s life talking about accomplishing things instead of accomplishing them.
That was a statement WELL stated Mr Williams.
Geez, one third of our military serving in 150 countries. Try subtracting the forces in Japan, Korea, Germany, Iraq, and Afghanistan and see how many military personnel are in the other 145 locals. The US military performs many more roles in these days, than dominating the local government.
As far as the global economy is concered. Forget about that. The global economy is a total farce, nice idea, but one whose day has not come.
To back up what markscease stated. Estimated to be 1,379,551 active US military, of which 1,303,798 (94.5%) are in one of six countries (US, Iraq, Afghanistan, Japan, Korea, Germany)
the remaining 144+ countries that Mr. Kent speaks of contain a whopping 75,753 (5.5%)
To Mr. Kent,
I stumbled on your blog by doing a Google search of Blessed is the Match. I found your thoughts interesting. I then jumped to your May 3 comment about your wife and thought I would add you to my blog list. Then I read this pile of crap and like Ronald Williams said-
“I suppose it’s understandable why you would be a little bitter in your old age, as a “professional philosopher” can’t have much pride in their accomplishments in life. It is an occupation which spends it’s life talking about accomplishing things instead of accomplishing them.”
I would rather read what he has to say than what you do. Perhaps when your pension runs out, you will see that the change you hoped for in Obama, was just loose change.
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