The best thing to do with these fallen heroes is to honor their sacrifice and know they did not die in vain, but rather a gallant attempt to free an enslaved people. God bless them and their families.
Ultimate honor would be to make sure their sisters didn’t die as well - in vain - for a war to free a people who don’t know they are enslaved and who don’t know why we insist it is a problem. It isn’t a problem for them? Why is it a problem for us? What better way to let the families of the fallen know we care by ending the conflict and consequently the death. God will continue to bless them and their families and may even include blessing the families who end this war.
It reminds of the T shirt I remember seeing as a teen…, join the military, go to and visit exotic new countries, meet different exotic new people…then kill them.
Or in this case, have them kill you.
Stupid is as stupid does. There is no honor in death. This is the cognitive consonance required to reinforce terribly made, irreversible decisions. Better known as conning oneself. Families must do this or go mad.
Imagine what Iraqi non-combatants must feel about the random murder of their families. We can at least be assured that these victims were certainly not doing what they loved. Imagine people claiming that spreading mayhem with the possibility of being killed or killing others is “doing what they loved” because it just “felt right”. Sounds like a Jeffrey Dahmer interview.
The possibility that you are to go to a foreign place with the latent prospect of killing people you do not know, or really know nothing about is a new variety of insanity, in this one of the most insane places that have so evolved.
Go to my blog and read about what Iraqi vets had to say about killing. Read about what I learned military recruiters are doing to entice students in schools to join the military.
Thank you Cliff for printing this. I agree with Cassandra. There is no honor in death. There is no honor in dying in an illegal war of agressions.
Hundreds of lives have been lost. Do you feel more safe now?
Cliff Lyon
August 22nd, 2006 at 8:23 pm
Cliff
The best thing to do with these fallen heroes is to honor their sacrifice and know they did not die in vain, but rather a gallant attempt to free an enslaved people. God bless them and their families.
August 23rd, 2006 at 3:02 am
Ultimate honor would be to make sure their sisters didn’t die as well - in vain - for a war to free a people who don’t know they are enslaved and who don’t know why we insist it is a problem. It isn’t a problem for them? Why is it a problem for us? What better way to let the families of the fallen know we care by ending the conflict and consequently the death. God will continue to bless them and their families and may even include blessing the families who end this war.
August 23rd, 2006 at 8:01 am
It reminds of the T shirt I remember seeing as a teen…, join the military, go to and visit exotic new countries, meet different exotic new people…then kill them.
Or in this case, have them kill you.
Stupid is as stupid does. There is no honor in death. This is the cognitive consonance required to reinforce terribly made, irreversible decisions. Better known as conning oneself. Families must do this or go mad.
Imagine what Iraqi non-combatants must feel about the random murder of their families. We can at least be assured that these victims were certainly not doing what they loved. Imagine people claiming that spreading mayhem with the possibility of being killed or killing others is “doing what they loved” because it just “felt right”. Sounds like a Jeffrey Dahmer interview.
The possibility that you are to go to a foreign place with the latent prospect of killing people you do not know, or really know nothing about is a new variety of insanity, in this one of the most insane places that have so evolved.
We are so terribly SICK!!!
August 23rd, 2006 at 5:50 pm
Powerful, indeed!
August 23rd, 2006 at 6:15 pm
This is one of the most powerful posts that I have ever read (or viewed).
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, you deserve nothing less than to be tried for war crimes and sentenced to rot in your collective jail cell!
Flip each and every one of you!
August 23rd, 2006 at 6:19 pm
The CiC is SICK.
August 25th, 2006 at 4:09 pm
Go to my blog and read about what Iraqi vets had to say about killing. Read about what I learned military recruiters are doing to entice students in schools to join the military.
Thank you Cliff for printing this. I agree with Cassandra. There is no honor in death. There is no honor in dying in an illegal war of agressions.
Hundreds of lives have been lost. Do you feel more safe now?