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Image of the Day : Political Cartoons - Borgman

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  • *****martiallaw*****

    ONE IS AS BAD AS THE OTHER ONE, IN NEED OF REFORMS.

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  • Well i’m a seargent in the U.S. military and they train you to learn this: kill or be killed

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  • Dear Alexandra, I do not know in which country you live, but in Europe you can sue your boss for indecent behaviour and proposals! Of course, you should ask a lawyer’s advice first.
    LOVE,
    Thelma

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  • Might be true.Also is easier lose a job than find one.My brother lost his job,and poor he has two kids.I have to be calm,while my nasty boss make sexual advances to me,because a job is rare”Rara avis”those days.still,if he go on with the story,i leave soon my job.hope he stop in time.I work with his wife,is really imbarassing

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  • Hmmmm good post, Savita, with the hard reality…

    The thing is the business of being a soldier is ultimately killing someone, no? You know, if you carry a gun, you have to come to terms with using it, you know, killing something…

    As well is the willingness to give up the self to a group mind necessary to implement military actions without question…

    Someone wrote that there are several paths to power, fortune and position, and the military is one of them. But also there is the priest hood. Um… I can’t remember what else. The point is, I think, what is the objective here. Just to make a living? Of achieve higher goals within the society, like power, fame and fortune…

    You know, it sounds something like what Sam Kinnison once said about the starving Ethiopians back during that famine… why don’t they move out of the f#^^%$*&@g desert!?!?!?!

    Which is why we leave home and go looking for our fortune…

    At least, being a soldier is honorable as you see the direct results of your actions… as opposed to, say, a politician…

    Please understand that this is not a comment on your nephew’s personal choices so much as, in general, our limited perspectives and the choices we all tend to make…

    Hmmm… let’s see, the path’s were soldier, priest, politician, prostitute….

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  • My dear Savita Vega, thank you for the story of your nephew. Me, here in my … comfortable chair, I feel quilty for all these young children and men who have to go to ‘any’ war, because this is the only option they have. The blame goes directly to those ‘cooking and preparing’ the wars behind closed doors and walls and to those who ‘create’ economic crises, in order to be able to manipulate people. And every simple human being on this Earth just needs and wants a warm home, food and love to live and raise his children in peace.
    Love,
    Thelma

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  • It looks like a joke, but it isn’t. My nephew is in the military. He has been in for several years, and now has only four months to go. (Sounds like a prison sentence, doesn’t it?) He didn’t join because he supported the war in Iraq. On the contrary, he is quite against the militaristic outlook of the former Bush administration. “So why did he join then?” some might ask. Isn’t he a bit of a hypocrite for taking part in military campaigns he does not agree with? The answer is, No - he isn’t a hypocrite, just poor, and therefore desperate.

    In the small town where he was born there are not a lot of opportunities. He was never very good in school, and so, college was not really an option. Of the few doors that were open to him, I suppose the military seemed the lesser of all evils. Of course he could have gone to work in the paper mill, come home stinking every day, and died of cancer at age forty. Or perhaps he could have landed a job on an off-shore oil rig and come home at the end of every two-week period with his hands and his face and his hair so stained and smelling of oil that it would take the next two weeks to scrub it all off. Or he could have learned to use a saw and become a logger and maybe, if he were lucky, just maybe he would only lose one or two fingers in the spans of his career. This is how you can tell who the loggers are when you go into a diner here - you look at their hands. They are the ones who are missing fingers, or, if you could see their legs, you would often find, as well, at least one long, jagged scar - the mark left by the chainsaw blade when it bounced off a nail or some other object buried in the trunk of a tree.

    So is this young man a hypocrite for joining the military when he does not support the administration sanctioning the campaigns they are engaged in? Perhaps - I don’t know. But I will say this: he is not alone in his decision to chose this option as the lesser of all evils. And I cannot say that I blame him. It is hard to know what the doors look like that are open before another person unless you are standing in their shoes, which, of course, is impossible.

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  • War gives so many jobs and …. money to the industries involved too!!
    Love,
    Thelma

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  • tres drole.
    en depit de…
    j’espere vous rencontrez un jour
    xxxxxxxxx

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