ByteOnBikes@discuss.online to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · 5 months agoUS Military never really trained for these types of dog and pony showsdiscuss.onlineexternal-linkmessage-square279fedilinkarrow-up11.16Karrow-down141file-text
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minus-squareDraedron@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35arrow-down3·5 months ago“Defend our nation” by starting wars to keep rich people rich?
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-25 months agoUnironically yes. You don’t get to be the center of the universe without showing up on the periphery to kick someone else’s nuts in from time to time. This clip – of Tom Friedman saying the attack on Iraq was morally justified because we had to take out “our big stick” and tell Iraqis: “suck on this” – is one of the most deranged and psychosexually twisted war justifications ever.
minus-squareBigBananaDealer@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·5 months agono sometimes they start wars to get rich people richer but for reals its not the soldiers starting wars its the higher ups and the people who make weapons who start wars
minus-squareDraedron@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·4 months agoIt is soldiers who willingly join that organization, knowing the same or more as we know. So they are as morally bancrupt as their leadership
“Defend our nation” by starting wars to keep rich people rich?
Unironically yes. You don’t get to be the center of the universe without showing up on the periphery to kick someone else’s nuts in from time to time.
This clip – of Tom Friedman saying the attack on Iraq was morally justified because we had to take out “our big stick” and tell Iraqis: “suck on this” – is one of the most deranged and psychosexually twisted war justifications ever.
no sometimes they start wars to get rich people richer
but for reals its not the soldiers starting wars its the higher ups and the people who make weapons who start wars
It is soldiers who willingly join that organization, knowing the same or more as we know. So they are as morally bancrupt as their leadership