Sep 25 2007
END Transmission
The Nazi on shore leave “Shore-Leave OIC” has banned me from his blog. Whatever his position is in the United States Army is irrelevant, for he wants the Army to be replaced with Tactics. Tactics and technology will turn our Army into kids in a bunker playing Nintendo, with drone planes and armed robots. That is not an Army. The heart of the Army is the grunt, his blaster, his hole and his presence. Slowly but surely the infantry’s presence has been reduced, first by bows, then by gun powder. Our Army’s function was completely replaced last century by politics, jet fuel and the advent of the Nuclear bomb.
The new war became economics and mental occupation (aka fearism). To defeat Communism the United States encouraged the Privatizing Corporations of America to pump the US economy with the Militarized Industrial Complex. This enabled the politicians to realize their goals by creating more publicly acceptable and “humane” killing machines and increased the power of sanctions. Now their dream is almost fully realized with armed remote GPS systems and the Quasi-Federal Reserve. An Armies purpose is to occupy. No Nation State that respects the ideology of Nation State should occupy a sovereign state other than as an absolute last resort for current self preservation. But that is the problem with State lines that are formed by history, for history is made every second and occupation changes the line.
The following is my farewell dance with one of our soldiers. Some posts have been edited for length but the context was left intact. Continue Reading »
