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Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 1:10
PM
Subject: Re: Yahoo! Auto Response
Beth--you're either too young or wrongfully directed. You should
thank your lucky stars that you weren't in any war or even minor
skirmishes. You could be dead or have returned home to finish your
life out with major disabling injuries.
Do you think our Military themselves "declared war" on weak enemies
for some blithe reason? Of course we made many mistakes. We vote a
President into office. We trust him. Our only resource to remove
any President is the ballot box. We're a lot more civilized than the
majority of countries.
Other countries are run by psychopathic dictators and there are many of
them existing today. Have you considered that innocent people and
countries were and are being invaded by Fascistic and Totalitarian
countries? How do you propose to stop evil from spreading and
"acquiring" these weaker countries? The United States has never
"acquired" another country. We influenced them, of course, since
we fought to free them and spent trillions of dollars doing so.
Germany was our enemy but now we're partners. Germany finances much
of America's debt. So does another one-time enemy, Japan. I'm
sorry you don't understand man's thousands of years of warring struggles
but they're a fact.
Consider this: men and women didn't discover "romantic love" until the
1800's. Some people say that was a mistake since they believe "IT"
doesn't exist; merely an infatuation of the mind. Most marriages
were arranged. We once lived in caves. Thankfully, some men and
women had a better idea. A more civilized way for managing their
dangerous environment. Eventually, man journey a long way and saw
that there was always a better way.
Civilizations are built around cites--enormous and very complex
cities--that are highly organized and protected. Policemen alone can
never provide national security as effectively as a nation's Armed
Forces. As I write this even Israel is watching with alarm an internal
warring struggle between civilized people inside her own country and a growing
uncivilized Mafia also made up of Israeli citizens! Russia has the same
problem but in spades! We have drug and criminal activities that require
newer prisons for the "people who can't or won't understand" that a country
cannot survive without order and discipline. We're still not out of
the woods. Arthur Koestler said, "as long as there's one man on the road
and 10 in the bush the guy on the road better be damn careful."
Remember 1934 and how a little over 40 percent of Americans voted for the
Communist Party in the U.S. Americans were starving, without jobs,
lacked any means of getting a job, had large hungry families, and were not
eligible for any medical care or medicines. I used to go to the
front door and hand a family of 5 poorly dressed a wrapping prepared by my
mother that contained 5 peanut butter sandwiches. Of the 5 one was the
mother. The father was out holding a place in some employment line
waiting for an injury inside the gates of the company to free-up one
job! That's how you (my parents) contributed to keeping the "city"
alive, civilized. We knew instinctively that "there but for thee go
I."
According to the Greeks, who defined and planned their cities on the most
civilized desires of their and philosophers, each family was instructed on how
to secure a place to live and food to eat on a regular basis. This
solution to natural disorganization among "tribes" and wandering classes
was the responsibility of the managers of that city. They kept
their world "civilized" and kept the enemy out! But, alas,
all is prologue. Leaders vary in skill and motives. However,
the Greek concept of something so obvious as "civil centers" or an idea of
civilization spread around the world by their great military leaders. The
latter men brought these ideas of "civil" and "cities" together.
Without one you can't have the other. We see that every day in
Iraq. These civilizing ideas are the ideas and thoughts of some of
the greatest men who ever lived--enormously selfless philosophers all of
them. Yet they voted often for "defensive war" by taking the
offense. Only an idiot would tip his hand prior to
battle.
Blake Mooney
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: Yahoo! Auto Response
> Really for what? So you can have a venue to kill
other people?
> You lack respect for your trade..
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> From: <bethcullom@yahoo.com>
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> > If you can read this, thank a teacher.
> > If
you are a pacifist who hasn't been murdered or enslaved yet, thank a
>
soldier.
> > Happy Holidays. Hooah! Semper Fi.
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> > I will be sporadically checking my e-mail for
awhile.
> >
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