Thoughts on Veteran's Day

Isn't it amazing how far things have gone in 20 years of presidencies that never served the flag in active duty service?  How cavalierly they launched war after war, dragging our country, her people, and the flag through the muck of wars that did not have to be?  And we now suffer through another term of presidential service offered up by yet another non veteran, willing to wage even more war, to shift the military from Iraq to the "good war" in Afghanistan, a nation that in it's 3000 year history has proved to be a hell hole for every would be conqueror, and has never been conquered by any, including Alexander the Great.

I wonder how many more body bags will come home before we finally come to realize that war isn't worth the blood spent in it, and certainly if not for a just cause.  And even if Bin Laden had still existed, any more lives sacrificed would not be worth the price of removing him.  If he was on dialysis before the war started in 2001, he surely was dead years ago in spite of the fake tapes trotted out by "intelligence" to prod us on to war.

God blessed America with an abundance of resources enough to last her forever - unless we develop a throw away society for the greater profit of the few.  He gave us leaders that believed in his teachings, who sat up a country based on a Constitution that would allow prosperity for all.  We throw him out into the gutter, allowing his name to be mentioned in earnest only in the sanctity of the home, the prison, and the church - you can curse it any time you like.  We go to war in spite of the fact that his teachings and his son's teaching all speak of the sanctity of human life, and we do it in "their" names.  No wonder this country has spiraled into the gutter over the past 20 years.  I wonder if we will ever find ourselves again.

Yes, God bless the veteran for he gave much, received little, and is being replaced not by citizen-soldiers, but by mercenaries, who will have no respect for human life by the time they leave "service."  They are an entirely different breed from those that served nobly in the wars to end all wars.  I don't condemn them since they are a product of their times, their training, and the philosophy of their leaders.  I only pity them and fear them.