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Re: gas out
hi.
that nice jnf says, (oh, and "hi, znf"!) :
>No greater thing can a man do than lay down his life for another man. Is
>this what we're doing? Why or why not?
>
>A little disheartened,
>jnf
one thing to lay down your life for another. that's fine. kind of a nice
thing to do, and i'm all for that. but see, that's kind of a passive
thing, not quite like flying planes over a land and bombing the hell out of
it, killing a few people while you're at it. that's more an active thing.
i'm not too hip on that idea, i learned that lesson when i was a child and
we were sending off cousins to Viet Nam. i could come home from school and
watch news updates with Walter Cronkite from 'Nam. i realized back then
that this wasn't cool. oh, yeah, i guess i'm a liberal. so, bite me!
some of you may be thinking that we need to stop Milosovic as we should stop
any modern day H*tl*r (don't wanna stop the thread!) but there is a
difference to consider. the Jews weren't at war with H*tl*r's reich. they
were victims. nor were they at odds over sacred or holy lands. they were
just victims. there may be a few similarities, but they fall way short.
but, i guess we spent billions on these cool airplanes, it'd be a shame to
just waste the cash. kick the tires and light the fires, right?
what's that folk song that goes, "oh when will they ever learn? oh when
will ~they~ ever learn?"
or here's a song. is it edwin mccain? " War! huuuh! What is it good
for? Absolutely nothing!"
or this nice anne e dechant song:
"take a knife take a gun
take a walk take a run
take a ride on the badge you wear
tuck your shirt fix your tie
look at this oh, my my
what a man you've become
give your hand to this land
give your might to the fight
sail away on the flag you bear
tuck your shirt fix your tie
look at this oh, my my
what a man you've become
so it goes, no one knows
the lies he's told or the things that he's done
apple pie, sparkling eye
cut off at the thigh
wheeling around on the ground
that he should have been running on"
we need folk music as much now as ever.
jg, not searching for any mercenary group to enjoin.
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