#pointless war

[incourages]

The Point of War

men died needlessly for an end but no answer.

WOLF Series - #149

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[deborahdeshoftim5779]

British journalist Peter Hitchens back in 2011, explaining the stupidity of the war in Afghanistan. People laughed back then. I wonder how they are reacting now. 

[buymepizzaa]

Today in class we were discussing about the Vietnam War and I got emotional af, millions of people died for no reason.

[anonymousprocrastinators-bl-blog]

Do I like Russell T. Davies' writing? Yes. Do I like Steven Moffat's writing? Yes. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH LIKING THEM BOTH. 

Both have their good points and their bad.

[raedenzen]

Via the Burning Platform:

"As Americans mindlessly celebrate another Memorial Day with cookouts, beer and burgers, the U.S. war machine keeps churning. As we brutally enforce our will on foreign countries, we create more people that hate us. They don’t hate us for our freedom. They hate us because we have invaded and occupied their countries. They hate us because we kill innocent people with predator drones. They hate us for our hypocrisy regarding democracy and freedom. Just when we had the opportunity to make a sensible decision by leaving Iraq and exiting the Middle East quagmire, Obama made the abysmal choice to casually sacrifice more troops in the Afghan shithole. We have thrown over $1.3 trillion down Middle East rat holes over the last 11 years with no discernible benefit to the citizens of the United States. George Bush and Barack Obama did this to prove they were true statesmen. The Soviet Union killed over 1 million Afghans, while driving another 5 million out of the country and retreated as a bankrupted and defeated shell after ten years. Young Americans continue to die, for whom and for what? Our foreign policy during the last eleven years can be summed up in one military term, SNAFU – Situation Normal All Fucked Up. These endless foreign interventions under the guise of a War on Terror are a smoke screen for what is really going on in this country. When a government has unsolvable domestic problems, they try to distract the willfully ignorant masses by proactively creating foreign conflicts based upon false pretenses. General Douglas MacArthur understood this danger to our liberty."

[unbound-imagination-blog]

Repost if you're against pointless wars.

Well how do you do, young Willy McBride, Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside, And rest for a while 'neath the warm summer sun, I've been walking all day and I'm nearly done. I see by your gravestone you were only 19, You joined the great fallin' in 1916. Well I hope you died quick, and I hope you died clean. Oh Willy McBride, was it slow and obscene? Chorus: Did they beat the drums slowly, Did they play the fife lowly? Did they sound a death march as they lowered you down? Did the band play the last post and chorus? Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest? Did you leave here a wife or a sweetheart behind, In some faithful heart, is your memory in shrine? And though you died back in 1916, In that faithful heart, you're forever 19. Or are you a stranger without even a name, Enclosed forever behind a glass pane. In an old photograph, torn and battered and stained, And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame. Chorus Now Willy McBride, I can't help wondering why Do those who lie here know why they died? Did they really believe when they answered the cause, Did they really believe that this war would end wars? But the sorrow, the sufferin', the glory, the pain The killing and dying were all done in vain. But, Willy McBride, it all happened again, and again, and again, and again, and again. Chorus Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest?

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