A couple of comments on things I read today in regards to the above items.
When and where and for what reason, and under what circumstance can an individual be called a hero, legitimately.
Heroes are heroes for legitimate reasons, whatever they are. In a false “honorable” war he can’t be a hero to “right”, but to his fellow soldier, in any conflict, those he protects without concern for his own safety, he can be.
To Grunty1, get your facts straight before expounding on treason, “dissent is not treason. You probably think that a German soldier in WWII who would have dissented against the killing of the Jewish people, and all the countless other ethnicities who followed in their footsteps, should have been branded as treasonous.
Heaven forbid if America ever marched towards despotism, and you were there to cry treason, to folks who dissented against that march.
Those of you who think we have “learned a lesson” about being fooled into going to war, and that we will think more clearly before allowing it again, are wishful thinkers. We, and the rest of the world have time and time again been fooled into going to war. Look at all the world wars and all other wars, starting with all foreign nations. We ourselves were escalated into Vietnam by Pres. Johnson, remember the Gulf of Tonkin? How about the Bay of Pigs before that? Though that one didn’t work out because the President backtracked at the last second, negating his commitment to those on the beaches of Cuba. But it could have worked if carried through, all the lies were in place. Look around at history before making statements like that,… please. Looking at history, it seems impossible to think we couldn’t learn from it, but we never do.
I have never seen a government that didn’t lie, and frankly don’t expect to find one at any time in the future, whether Republican, Democrat, or anything else that comes along in its place. Lies and lying are ingrained into all governments psyche, they, I think, find it necessary and advantageous for themselves to do so, even under any and all circumstances.
Expect it!, then you won’t be surprised…. Still watching, and still thinking.
~Juris
