tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1151392762208539379.post8964801981315414008..comments2023-06-23T03:17:34.523-07:00Comments on Burton Hersh: Who Serves IIBurton Hershhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811412812377062372noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1151392762208539379.post-51375543430376198322012-03-28T17:40:09.757-07:002012-03-28T17:40:09.757-07:00Ceteris paribus, we are each and all no doubt prot...Ceteris paribus, we are each and all no doubt protected by those who volunteer; from whom and what degree of peril may be debatable. <br /><br />As a community, we need to be mindful of our continuing obligation to care for the damaged bodies and minds that return from service, no matter if the soldiers/sailors/airmen are pressed into service or sign up of their own volition.<br /><br />As a society we should also pay close attention to the capacity and character of those we enlist to avoid the double jeopardy of putting those more vulnerable and those more inclined toviolent anti-social behavior into a new class of long-term care PTSD wards of the state.<br /><br />I am for drones, paint them Republican red or Democrat blue, paint them anarchist black, or evangelical white. Let the drones buzz on high, in various concentric circles focused on those who may scheme to harm our people, our friends, or our interests. Drones are preferable to fighting a social war with better trained legionnaires whose single pint of blood spilt is worth more than the hearts and minds of an entire village of elders whose wives and daughters are enslaved.<br /><br />All to protect the lives and liberties of people who seem to focus only on what's in it for them or worse the latests doings of an increasingly insipid but decreasingly clad class of celebrities.<br /><br />Adios. I am tired and this game goes on too long.<br />Antonius BlochAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1151392762208539379.post-65684334441562319142012-03-28T14:53:03.874-07:002012-03-28T14:53:03.874-07:00So it goes in the legions of the Pax Americanus. ...So it goes in the legions of the Pax Americanus. It's hard to concentrate on chronic problems when Scalito and the Supremes are marshalling to nullify health care reform. "Other than that, how did you enjoy the play, Mrs. Lincoln?". -KnockedaboutAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com