the first casualty in war is the truth
Posted by Chuck on 2026-October-3 01:12:14, SaturdayIn reply to Belongs here because of Amir, the boy posted by Wilhelm on 2026-September-18 09:17:50, Friday
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and the reality that many north americans are as ignorant as can be should come as no surprise. You go to europe, and everyone knows the lies and hype of the u.s.a. but they know next to nothing about their own nations' shitty ways! "People ask, how is this possible? I get this all the time.... Americans are decent people. They are nice people. And they're insulated in the worlds that they live in, and they don't understand and we don't read our history. History is the history of war. Of leaders of countries finding reasons and rationales to send the young men off to fight." "In each of these wars the leaders have worked to organize, to orchestrate public opinion. And then when they got people worked up, they had a trigger that would flash, that would make people angry enough that we could go in and do [these atrocities]." " You look around this society today to see if there's any evidence of our preparations for war, and it hits you in the face.... 'Join the Army. Be all that you can be'. Now if there was truth in advertising, obviously those commercials would show a few seconds of young men with their legs blown off at the knees, young men with their intestines wrapped around their necks because that's what war is really all about. If there was honesty on the part of the army and the government, they would tell about the Vietnam veterans. More of whom died violent deaths from suicide after they came back from Vietnam then died in the fighting itself." --John Stockwell [@nonymouse] [Guardster] [Proxify] [Anonimisierungsdienst] |
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