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War 101
Posted: June 19th, 2010, 5:35 pm
by saw
If it's natural to kill
why do soldiers need training ?
Patriotism is okay unless it's only
my chickenshit congressman
dressed in a three piece flag
telling me to sign up my children
the salient features of the barbarism
we call Just War
is it convinces men to collectively
commit acts they would individually reject
See, the big problem here is the folks
doing all the fighting and dying
are not the same folks
doing all the talking and cajoling
A soldier hopes his sacrifice
will make his country better off
three months into it, he hopes at the very least
the other guy is worse off than he is
Six months into it
he knows without reservation
everything he needs to know about war
Everyone........... is worse off
Posted: June 19th, 2010, 6:35 pm
by WIREMAN
ooooooo baby baby it's a wild world.....
Posted: June 19th, 2010, 6:50 pm
by mnaz
and yet they claim it's inevitable, even genetic.
Posted: June 19th, 2010, 9:17 pm
by constantine
war. what is it good for? i would say absolutely nothing.
Posted: June 20th, 2010, 1:49 am
by WIREMAN
do ya hear the sound
johnny marchin' home
hasty puddin' boyz
what's all this shit
about the feather in
the hat & just why did
they call it macaroni?????
Posted: June 20th, 2010, 9:23 am
by saw
yea mark, what is dat shit ?....mnaz...so many claims...the recruiters now are highly trained manipulators that particularly love to prey on poor uneducated often rural areas where there are no jobs.....that's fucked up, man......like teasing kids with candy....and brother dino,
the quintessential ♦war song......right on !
Posted: June 24th, 2010, 5:49 am
by stilltrucking
Kings and Queens
Presidents and Prime Ministers
Chairman of the Boards and Investors
Generals and Politicians
All agree
War is good business
Invest your children
THERE’S one moment in the Rolling Stone article that led to Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s dismissal on Thursday that truly concerned me — and it’s not one of the reproachful comments about administration officials that have been clucked over by pundits and politicians. No, what stood out for me was the scene in which General McChrystal points to the members of his staff and says: “All these men, I’d die for them. And they’d die for me.”
General McChrystal got it entirely backward: generals definitely don’t die for their soldiers, and soldiers don’t die for generals. They die because generals order them into battle to accomplish a mission, and some are killed carrying out those orders. General McChrystal’s statement is that of a man who is sentimental about his job, and who has confused sentimentality with command.
For too long, the Army has been led by sentimental men, by peacocks in starched fatigues and strutting ascetics surrounded by public relations teams. But the Army doesn’t need sentimental generals; it needs generals who can give the kind of difficult and deadly orders that win wars.
The Unsentimental Warrior
Posted: June 25th, 2010, 5:23 pm
by Lightning Rod
hard subject to do freshly, steve
nice job
Posted: June 27th, 2010, 3:36 pm
by hester_prynne
I agree with LROD...
Really like this, it says it well.
H
Posted: June 30th, 2010, 6:08 am
by DT6011
Is this an original composition? The idea of the poem is great. The message is straight to the point. Nice work.
Posted: June 30th, 2010, 7:23 pm
by Doreen Peri
Dear DT6011,
Are you a real person or a spam bot here to advertise Kingston Flash Drives? Just wondering. If you're not a spam bot and you are a real person, please let me know. I delete spam bots. *smile*
Thanks!
-DP - Admin
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Steve, sorry for the interruption. Your poem was well written. I especially liked the last stanza.
Posted: June 30th, 2010, 8:31 pm
by DT6011
Nope, Im not a spam bot. I'm also not a cute little kitty.
I removed the link from my signature and instead put one in my homepage field. I hope that's more acceptable, after all it
is my blog.
Posted: June 30th, 2010, 9:06 pm
by Doreen Peri
DT6011-
Oh OK good! Welcome to the Studio!
Actually we don't have any problem with real people promoting their businesses or websites or blogs or creative efforts, etc. Selling a product is something I don't normally see, though, unless it's a painting or a book or CD (since this is an arts site). Anyway, as long as you're a real person (*smile*), that's great! You're welcome here. It sure didn't look like a blog, btw. I clicked it and it looked like a site to sell flash drives.
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Again, apologies to Saw for interrupting your thread. It was totally not cool of me. I should have send DT6011 a private message.
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And now *drumroll* without further ado... back to the topic at hand... Saw's poem!
It's actually the last two stanzas that really brought this poem home with me:
A soldier hopes his sacrifice
will make his country better off
three months into it, he hopes at the very least
the other guy is worse off than he is
Six months into it
he knows without reservation
everything he needs to know about war
Everyone........... is worse off