tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post1252318176343220294..comments2024-03-26T22:16:26.572-04:00Comments on Terrierman's Daily Dose: War is About Horror, Not HeroesPBurnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05781540805883519064noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post-82909118740734283832021-06-06T21:16:41.530-04:002021-06-06T21:16:41.530-04:00You think American troops fought for equality and ...You think American troops fought for equality and freedom?<br /><br />Not mostly.<br /><br />The Revolutionary War was a battle that kept women, native people, and blacks politically and economically disenfranchised — a situation that prevailed for all three groups well into the 20th Century.<br /><br />It was US troops that crushed America’s native people, helped steal their land, and intern their leaders. <br /><br />250,000 American troops died in the US Civil War fighting to *preserve* the brutality and exploitation of slavery. <br /><br />That’s more dead Confederate traitors killed who were fighting FOR slavery than all US. soldiers killed in the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, World War I, Korea, Vietnam, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan COMBINED.<br /><br />During World War II, US Troops were the folks rounding up Japanese Americans and herding them into internment prison camps and abetting the theft of their farms, stores, and homes. The Army didn’t round up Germans and Italians; just the Japanese.<br /><br />The US Armed forces were segregated all the way through WWII and really into Korea. <br /><br />The US military wasn’t fighting for black, Asian, or religious freedom; they were fundamentally opposed to it and -— judging by the complexion of the leaders at the top of the military (counting major generals and up) — still have a way to go.<br /><br />See >> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation_in_the_United_States_Armed_Forces<br /><br />See >> https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation<br /><br />See >> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualties_of_war<br /><br /><br />But hey, the war against racism is STILL being fought. <br /><br />How’s it going from your home front?<br /><br />Did you march against Trump or stand with the “very fine” Nazis in Charlottesville? <br /><br />Did you support or oppose pulling down the KKKonfederate monuments to terror and slavery, and do you support teaching the history of American racism in schools? <br /><br />How about our troops? Are they watching Fox news and flying "thin blue line" flags of fascism, or are they standing arm in arm, off-duty, in support of black equality, anti-Asian discrimination, gay inclusion, and Jewish and Muslim civil rights?<br /><br />How about you? What channel is your TV turned to? What are you doing to fight the never-ending battle? <br /><br />Because the troops... they've got a pretty spotty record.PBurnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05781540805883519064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post-6029891621404336702021-05-28T18:18:11.888-04:002021-05-28T18:18:11.888-04:00I guess you'd rather live in a slave-owning co...I guess you'd rather live in a slave-owning country and possibly BE a slave. Or be speaking Japanese, German or Russian.Or worse, being gassed because you were gay, Roma, Jewish or Catholic. Or bowing as a good subject does, to a sociopath-king living an ocean away. Scott Linden Outdoorshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16618321982914820556noreply@blogger.com