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<blockquote data-quote="LBP" data-source="post: 55444419" data-attributes="member: 260316"><p><span style="color: blue">Pretty much yes, it seems to me. I always go back to President Eisenhower's warning as he left office about the dangers of the military-industrial complex. There could scarcely have been anyone in a better position to understand those dangers. The degree to which "Military Madness" (to borrow from an old Graham Nash song) has since overtaken this country is simply beyond belief, to the degree that the insanity that you're describing is now viewed as being completely consistent with Christian values or even as being a veritable Christian mission. I was born and raised in the U.S. and am a Christian, but I am entirely in sympathy with those who refer to the U.S. as The Great Satan. I believe that this is precisely -- biblically -- what the U.S. has become under the military-industrial complex, and I see absolutely no prospect for change. If you have never read <em>The Kingdom of Heaven Is Within You</em> by Leo Tolstoy, you might find it interesting since Tolstoy believed that Christ's admonition to resist not evil is the key to the Christian life; quite the opposite of those who find convenient ways to explain it away and whose idea of Christianity is bombing your perceived enemies into oblivion. Anyway, it is tragic how many kids who have little choice but to join the military and their well-meaning parents buy into the B.S. they are fed by the military-industrial complex and the rah-rah Christian right and fail to realize that they are dying for nothing (less than nothing, really, since they are destroying other innocent lives in the process).</span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><p style="margin-left: 20px"><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="color: blue">In an upstairs room in Blackpool</span></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="color: blue">By the side of a northern sea</span></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="color: blue">The army had my father</span></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="color: blue">And my mother was having me</span></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="color: blue">Military Madness was killing my country</span></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="color: blue">Solitary Sadness comes over me</span></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="color: blue">After the school was over and I moved </span></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="color: blue">To the other side</span></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="color: blue">I found another country but I never</span></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="color: blue">Lost my pride</span></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="color: blue">Military Madness was killing the country</span></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="color: blue">Solitary sadness creeps over me</span></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="color: blue">And after the wars are over</span></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="color: blue">And the body count is finally filed</span></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="color: blue">I hope that The Man discovers</span></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="color: blue">Whats driving the people wild</span></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="color: blue">Military madness is killing your country</span></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="color: blue">So much sadness, between you and me</span></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="color: blue">War, War, War, War, War, War</span></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> </p> </p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LBP, post: 55444419, member: 260316"] [COLOR=blue]Pretty much yes, it seems to me. I always go back to President Eisenhower's warning as he left office about the dangers of the military-industrial complex. There could scarcely have been anyone in a better position to understand those dangers. The degree to which "Military Madness" (to borrow from an old Graham Nash song) has since overtaken this country is simply beyond belief, to the degree that the insanity that you're describing is now viewed as being completely consistent with Christian values or even as being a veritable Christian mission. I was born and raised in the U.S. and am a Christian, but I am entirely in sympathy with those who refer to the U.S. as The Great Satan. I believe that this is precisely -- biblically -- what the U.S. has become under the military-industrial complex, and I see absolutely no prospect for change. If you have never read [I]The Kingdom of Heaven Is Within You[/I] by Leo Tolstoy, you might find it interesting since Tolstoy believed that Christ's admonition to resist not evil is the key to the Christian life; quite the opposite of those who find convenient ways to explain it away and whose idea of Christianity is bombing your perceived enemies into oblivion. Anyway, it is tragic how many kids who have little choice but to join the military and their well-meaning parents buy into the B.S. they are fed by the military-industrial complex and the rah-rah Christian right and fail to realize that they are dying for nothing (less than nothing, really, since they are destroying other innocent lives in the process).[/COLOR] [INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][I][COLOR=blue]In an upstairs room in Blackpool[/COLOR][/I] [I][COLOR=blue]By the side of a northern sea[/COLOR][/I] [I][COLOR=blue]The army had my father[/COLOR][/I] [I][COLOR=blue]And my mother was having me[/COLOR][/I] [I][COLOR=blue]Military Madness was killing my country[/COLOR][/I] [I][COLOR=blue]Solitary Sadness comes over me[/COLOR][/I] [I][COLOR=blue]After the school was over and I moved [/COLOR][/I] [I][COLOR=blue]To the other side[/COLOR][/I] [I][COLOR=blue]I found another country but I never[/COLOR][/I] [I][COLOR=blue]Lost my pride[/COLOR][/I] [I][COLOR=blue]Military Madness was killing the country[/COLOR][/I] [I][COLOR=blue]Solitary sadness creeps over me[/COLOR][/I] [I][COLOR=blue]And after the wars are over[/COLOR][/I] [I][COLOR=blue]And the body count is finally filed[/COLOR][/I] [I][COLOR=blue]I hope that The Man discovers[/COLOR][/I] [I][COLOR=blue]Whats driving the people wild[/COLOR][/I] [I][COLOR=blue]Military madness is killing your country[/COLOR][/I] [I][COLOR=blue]So much sadness, between you and me[/COLOR][/I] [I][COLOR=blue]War, War, War, War, War, War[/COLOR][/I] [/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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