I propose the radical step of not trying to solve complex political problems Bombs

The west has normalised racist wars - but you can’t solve complex problems with 1,000lb bombs

Frankie Boyle

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/30/west-racist-wars-bombs-radicalisation-frankie-boyle

There are many indicators of advanced civilisations, but unthinking hero worship of the military isn’t one of them. The US, like the UK, has been forced to move away from a conscription army and now has a mercenary army. It’s the reason you don’t get war poets any more.

Frankie Boyle

Part of the American mindset comes from the fact that the US was formed through the racist murder of indigenous people. The reason that whole country is such a horror story is that the entire thing is built on an Old Indian Graveyard. I worry that perhaps white America wants to believe that its racial fault lines only run as deep as the Confederate flag. Hence the current uproar at names of southern civil-war generals being on street signs while the faces of slave owners are still on the currency.

Frankie Boyle

Makes you thunk!

But didn't the Indians also butcher each other, enslave each other, and take each others lands as well?

There are many indicators of advanced civilisations, but unthinking hero worship of the military isn’t one of them. The US, like the UK, has been forced to move away from a conscription army and now has a mercenary army. It’s the reason you don’t get war poets any more.

Originally posted by Surtur
But didn't the Indians also butcher each other, enslave each other, and take each others lands as well?

No. In the entire history of mankind....only WHITE PEOPLE have every done such things.

You silly head you.

haha look how the strawman says silly things

Originally posted by Omega Vision
This is idiotic. If anything public reverence of the military was as great or greater in the days of conscription compared to now. Also I think the lack of "war poets" can be better attributed to the fact that poetry as a whole is a less common form of expression for ordinary people today than it was in WW1.

You don't think an army where the soldiers choose to be soldiers, rather than people who were something else, might lead to less regret over the sacrifice, loss and evil that is war.