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8/3/2012 11:06am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEtZ5r0CIYI
Can we get thru a sporting even these days without having to be bombarded with military propaganda?
It's always so weird when I see accusations of propaganda to countries like N. Korea and whatnot but then I turn on the TV and our propaganda is front and center. In fact, Ive never been to another country ever and seen them advertise their military on TV like we do.
Sports advertising is pretty expensive. Is this money well spent by our government?
Does anyone else find it weird that they take our tax revenue (our money!) and then spend it on propaganda to try and convince us how good and necessary our military is? If they have to try and convince me with commercials, then Im far from sold. And I certainly dont need MY MONEY spent on propagandizing myself.
Im surprised we allow this wasteful spending to go on.
"A global force for good" ... hahahahahahahahaha
Can we get thru a sporting even these days without having to be bombarded with military propaganda?
It's always so weird when I see accusations of propaganda to countries like N. Korea and whatnot but then I turn on the TV and our propaganda is front and center. In fact, Ive never been to another country ever and seen them advertise their military on TV like we do.
Sports advertising is pretty expensive. Is this money well spent by our government?
Does anyone else find it weird that they take our tax revenue (our money!) and then spend it on propaganda to try and convince us how good and necessary our military is? If they have to try and convince me with commercials, then Im far from sold. And I certainly dont need MY MONEY spent on propagandizing myself.
Im surprised we allow this wasteful spending to go on.
"A global force for good" ... hahahahahahahahaha
So Cal Gas and So Cal Edison also have ad's on TV. Why? They have a monopoly. If we want gas and electricity, we have to get it from them. Who are they advertising to?
I see you point about enlistees, but I think those ads have way more to do with presenting a positive image to joe-taxpayer. But I could be wrong.
And no I dont have a problem with it nor do I ask for sympathy, nor do I care for anyone else born with one and I dont hold anyones birth defect against them. It's part of nature. It happens. Most of the time it could have been prevented by the parents. Sometimes it is just the randomness of nature. Can't get mad at nature. Can't feel sorry for it either.
The Shop
Dumbass.
Please school me on how this relates to the original post.
First, it'd vest the general public in any of these supposed "wars for freedom" we're fighting. There was a reason Vietnam was so vehemently protested against...that was called "the draft".
Second, it'd do a lot of young Americans a world of good. Military service arguably is one of the fastest ways to clean up someone's act.
I've been pushing my congressmen (started with Tancredo and continued through Coffman) to push a bill requiring a mandatory draft anytime the military is used abroad in combat. Neither want to do that, because they know it'd wake up America.
The cost to train one soldier is about $150K. The cost of the Iraq war sits somewhere between $1T and $3T, depending on how it's totalled. You can train up to 20 million kids out of high school at that cost, without killing anywhere near the numbers that have been sacrificed in that stupid, senseless war.
So, yeah, requiring America's young to serve might be a damn good thing...far better than a volunteer force.
Dumbass....lol.
Many soldiers come back fucked in the head. Only those who go there can tell the truth and many don't. I was talking to one who had been in Iraq and he simply said that he's job was to cap anybody with a scarf on their head. He was an alcoholic who could have killed or attacked at any second. I could tell. His eyes were scary.
Ultimately, I would define a soldiers purpose as playing with death and to experience a living hell. So the soldier survives...He gains a few medals, money and masculinity...Is that all? Oh and while he was gone, he's seemingly loyal wife had he's best friend in his bed time after time with a few others on the side. What's he got left now? So this isn't a generalization...Your ideal is a bit old school / cliche1950's / fairy dust realism.
This is my view and thought it would be interesting to add in this topic. I don't care about war, the government and it's never-ending implications. It's the people. The actual human beings, who commit to all this treachery and uncertainty.
You should care about war, because it affects a lot of people you don't even see. Your last comment is support for exactly what is the problem and why everyone should have an equal chance of going.
Pit Row
The poor and middle class will be the cannon fodder as always and the folks that make billions off the indutrial machine....well their kids won't be involved.
Just like when there was a draft the wealthy will get into college, ROTC Officers training, garner special deferments and never serve.
You're going to expect congress to tell the wealthy folks that support them either your rich little off-spring serves in the army or they can't vote and become the next senator from the great state of blah blah blah....?
Never in a million years.
I agree with your idea but the reality will not be the same.
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