Why We Fight

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by BigElCat

LOL.

I hated being isolated in the country as a kid, despised country music, and I was forced to listen grain market prices on the AM radio everyday.

Actually, Merle was a city boy who despised ignorant country people.

But if we want to kick off a war, we need propaganda like this.

I do not want to kick off a war. Anything at all like a war is always a horrendous disaster. But I think Trump ushering in a Christian nationalist fascist regime will also be a horrendous disaster, a thing worth fighting against even at great cost.

[BigElCat]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

I do not want to kick off a war. Anything at all like a war is always a horrendous disaster. But I think Trump ushering in a Christian nationalist fascist regime will also be a horrendous disaster, a thing worth fighting against even at great cost.

I agree.

As Smedley Butler pointed out, war is always a racket over money and control.

Commander Butler had defeated the Nicaragua army and elected president in 1912, at the behest of United Fruit. His war train was invincible, two hundred Marine riflemen per side, two machine guns per rail car. That's two tandem machine gunners at each gap between rail cars, up on the roof. That's all it took, and only had 4 Marines killed.

[donquixote99]

I read a book that said despite Butler's excellence as a combat leader, the Marines don't talk about him much now. Guess he got too woke for them.