A post submitted by CGI member Morgan.

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https://original.antiwar.com/reed/2024/04/08/enlisting-in-the-military-a-very-very-bad-idea/

If you are a young man wondering what to do with your life, you may consider enlisting in the military. Don’t. Yes, the military has its appeal, or seems to. You may need a job. The uniform looks good. There can be adventure. You might get laid by Asian lovelies in foreign countries. These things have their appeal. They did for me as a young Marine. But they aren’t worth being mutilated, blinded, or spending the rest of your years in a wheel chair. This can happen. It does happen. And Washington doesn’t give a damn.

Recruiters won’t tell you of this. They are liars. They lied to me. They will lie to you. At the very least, they will talk only about good things that might happen, about college money and job training you might get but probably won’t. They will make you feel welcome. You are joining a team of brothers, they will say. You are a patriot. You are defending your country.

Don’t believe it. The US military does not defend America. The last time it did this was in 1945, at the end of World War Two. Since then, American soldiers were sent for twenty years to Afghanistan. Is Afghanistan America? No. Was it, is it, important to America? No. Then Iraq, Syria, Iraq again, and Serbia, bombing helpless cities. Iraq isn’t America. In my day – I’m an old guy – it was Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, where 63,000 Americans died, and killed huge numbers of peasants who did nothing wrong–for no reason. Washington is now getting ready to start a war with China. China is on the other side of the world.

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Of course, the illegals who will be promised citizenship will not be reading this. They won't read Smedley Butler's WAR IS A RACKET, either. If they did, would they still come here? If they knew the truth about the 'USE 'EM AND LOSE 'EM' factor? It might be great in the short term, but the long term? Didn't Denver just put tons of 'em in the street after providing them housing for a while?

Oh, and the u.s. wants a civil war betwixt the illegals and those who are. . .um. . .uh. . .those who were born here with ancestry that goes back many generations on Turtle Island? And the left wing nuts are trying to disarm the u.s. public?

Why does this make me think of current day Palestine, Australia, Tasmania, and the European invasions of Turtle Island? It doesn't make the present invasions of the u.s. and Europe right, but ya gotta think 'aboot' it.

Different day, same old story. We haven't changed a whit in thousands of years.

Aren't you glad we don't live in this stupid realm of illusion, compromised abilities, slavery to circumstance, and perpetual inconvenience, forever?

And people celebrate birthdays? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!

Morgan