Sergeant Spot
Galactic Geographic BookMark Surveying Inc.
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Posted - 2011.04.19 02:33:00 -
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Speaking as a Cold Warrior, and 22 year USAF veteran of two wars, including my time in the sandbox.....
 Quote:
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things:
the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people.
A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice, ù is often the means of their regeneration.
A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other."
Quote from Jon Stewart Mill, but as true today as the day he said it.
One thing to add. Wars are MESSY. In innocent blood, in politics, ALWAYS. Yet, for reasons stated by Mill, and as true now as they were then, it remains a moral failure to stand by and do nothing. ESPECIALLY if you put up with Evil for 'humanitarian' reasons.
Play nice while you butcher each other.
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Sergeant Spot
Galactic Geographic BookMark Surveying Inc.
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Posted - 2011.04.19 02:38:00 -
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The main legit reason for inaction is lack of money.
You NEVER help anyone if you drive yourself broke. This is true in both war and peace.
Order the priority by a balance of need of the oppressed, and your own self interest, and then do what you can afford, AND NO MORE. This applies to all charity, be it simple giving of money, or sending troops.
Play nice while you butcher each other.
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