The news of the morning is that Gadaffi has been captured, and may be dead. Reuters is reporting that he was captured, with wounds in two legs, the result of a NATO airstrike on his convoy. The website where I get the news is scrolling across the top that he has died.
Gadaffi was a horrible dictator, who did nothing good for his people. The same can be said of all of the leaders who have been toppled in Northern Africa and the Middle East this year. But I have to tell you that I am getting sick of reading about killing and war.
Some former members of the military love reliving their glory days. They continually remind us that we have freedom thanks to their sacrifice. I don’t want to demean the sacrifice of men and women serving in the military, but we haven’t fought for American Freedom since 1812. Even WWI and WWII were about freedom in other countries, not here within our own borders. Having said that, I’ll grant you that had we not stopped some power hungry madmen who were marching through Europe, we might have been fighting them on our own shores. But we weren’t.
Korea wasn’t about American Freedom. Vietnam wasn’t about American Freedom. The first Iraq war wasn’t about American Freedom. The second Iraq war wasn’t about American Freedom. The war in Afghanistan isn’t about American Freedom. Killing Gadaffi isn’t about American Freedom.
I want to know when we are going to stop spending all of America’s wealth on blowing things up, including our own young people. I want to know when we are going to recognize that we owe American Freedom as much to teachers who stand in a classroom and remind us about the U.S. Constitution and that the pen is mightier than the sword.
I want to know when the budgeting process in congress will stop ignoring the horrible cost of unnecessary war, and unnecessary military toys. America is a very wealthy nation. We can afford to provide Medicare for all and Social Security for our elderly if we just stop blowing things up.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hope of its children." Dwight D. Eisenhower, Republican President of the United States said that. He was right.
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Gadaffi Captured
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Gadaffi was a horrible dictator, who did nothing good for his people. The same can be said of all of the leaders who have been toppled in Northern Africa and the Middle East this year. But I have to tell you that I am getting sick of reading about killing and war.
Some former members of the military love reliving their glory days. They continually remind us that we have freedom thanks to their sacrifice. I don’t want to demean the sacrifice of men and women serving in the military, but we haven’t fought for American Freedom since 1812. Even WWI and WWII were about freedom in other countries, not here within our own borders. Having said that, I’ll grant you that had we not stopped some power hungry madmen who were marching through Europe, we might have been fighting them on our own shores. But we weren’t.
Korea wasn’t about American Freedom. Vietnam wasn’t about American Freedom. The first Iraq war wasn’t about American Freedom. The second Iraq war wasn’t about American Freedom. The war in Afghanistan isn’t about American Freedom. Killing Gadaffi isn’t about American Freedom.
I want to know when we are going to stop spending all of America’s wealth on blowing things up, including our own young people. I want to know when we are going to recognize that we owe American Freedom as much to teachers who stand in a classroom and remind us about the U.S. Constitution and that the pen is mightier than the sword.
I want to know when the budgeting process in congress will stop ignoring the horrible cost of unnecessary war, and unnecessary military toys. America is a very wealthy nation. We can afford to provide Medicare for all and Social Security for our elderly if we just stop blowing things up.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hope of its children." Dwight D. Eisenhower, Republican President of the United States said that. He was right.
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Gadaffi Captured
American Budget Pie Chart
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