It would be nice to have a world in which we no longer had veterans since we finally eradicate all the dumb wars we wage. Of course, the Republicans and MAGATs love to go for the simple-minded and out of context part to my sentence. The veterans we have, especially the ones who were injured at various levels deserve dignity and should be cared for (regardless of their politics) to the ends of their lives. I would reserve the right of forfeiture to any that take up arms against America, namely the January 6 shitbirds. The rest can express all their bluster, etc. just as long as it remains bluster and not dangerous, treacherous and/or violent action.
Grampa Brunch’s withdrawal from Afghanistan is a start toward the goal. Now he has to end about another dozen involvements his predecessors got us stuck into.
This holiday came about from the horrors WWI unleashed on the world. Sure, there had been nasty conflicts before it. The Russo-Japanese War in 1905 and the English’s fight in Africa against the Boers readily come to mind. I think it took a world war to get enough to realize how much more destructive things had become thanks to the Industrial Revolution running its course for several centuries. It finally produced a war in which the majority were killed by bullets, shells, bayonets and poison gas; not the past causes: gangrene, diarrhea, cholera, starvation or exposure. Maybe we thought we learned our lesson.
Of course not. We can’t even stop a virus with a low infections rate with awful consequences.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
– HG Wells