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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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----- Original Message -----
> 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.
> >
> > I will be sporadically checking my e-mail for
awhile.
> >
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