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Too Many Sheep or Worse, Says Marine Vet
Wed, 08/12/2009 - 8:16am | mal contends
Gordon Duff is hostile to war and committed to advocacy for America’s 23-million veterans.
The truth of the matter is that Duff, a Scottish-American Maine combat veteran of the obscene lie known as the Vietnam War, is scarred for life and he keeps up the fight for fellow veterans’ wellbeing.
Duff has spoken up on numerous occasions for jailed Wisconsin veteran Keith Roberts, for example.
Now, as Duff notes a contemporary American military that is ever more brown, black and female, he points to an increasingly vocal number of veterans who are "white, male and aggressively 'Aryan' in orientation,"
As a whole Duff sees veterans under-performing at best as a potential lobby against an imperial American foreign policy sustained by systemic lying. And out-and-out racism is just the worst of it.
Write Duff in Veterans Today, The Decline of the American Veteran:
The truth of the matter is that Duff, a Scottish-American Maine combat veteran of the obscene lie known as the Vietnam War, is scarred for life and he keeps up the fight for fellow veterans’ wellbeing.
Duff has spoken up on numerous occasions for jailed Wisconsin veteran Keith Roberts, for example.
Now, as Duff notes a contemporary American military that is ever more brown, black and female, he points to an increasingly vocal number of veterans who are "white, male and aggressively 'Aryan' in orientation,"
As a whole Duff sees veterans under-performing at best as a potential lobby against an imperial American foreign policy sustained by systemic lying. And out-and-out racism is just the worst of it.
Write Duff in Veterans Today, The Decline of the American Veteran:
As it is now, if 'leaders,' anyone who can wave a flag and lie, tell the sheep to follow, no matter where or why, we ask nothing.
Obama’s Presidency on the Brink
Wed, 07/15/2009 - 2:04pm | mal contends
And so is our country.
How President Obama reacts to three catastrophes will define his presidency.
And none is the health care crisis, as critical as that is, and as annoying as are the Republican lies about public health care.
The catastrophes are Afghanistan, Goldman Sachs, and Veterans Affairs, none of which show a clear path to an acceptable humanitarian and political resolution.
Afghanistan
“Fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia!’” said Vizzini in The Princess Bride, a brilliant film my girlfriend talked me into watching.
Or as Gregory Feifer puts it in The Great Gamble, The Soviet War in Afghanistan (HarperCollins, 2009), “The Soviet war in Afghanistan again confirmed that no power ever successfully conquered that land … [From] Cyrus the Great [to] Alexander the Great … [to] the British … foreign forces have often moved into Afghanistan with relative ease, they’ve never been able to maintain control.”
Feifer and Vizzini might have added that the difficulties of the invaders paled in comparison to the devastation wreaked upon the invaders’ Afghan victims who after all were slaughtered and maimed on a level surpassing the American imagination.
And none is the health care crisis, as critical as that is, and as annoying as are the Republican lies about public health care.
The catastrophes are Afghanistan, Goldman Sachs, and Veterans Affairs, none of which show a clear path to an acceptable humanitarian and political resolution.
Afghanistan
“Fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia!’” said Vizzini in The Princess Bride, a brilliant film my girlfriend talked me into watching.
Or as Gregory Feifer puts it in The Great Gamble, The Soviet War in Afghanistan (HarperCollins, 2009), “The Soviet war in Afghanistan again confirmed that no power ever successfully conquered that land … [From] Cyrus the Great [to] Alexander the Great … [to] the British … foreign forces have often moved into Afghanistan with relative ease, they’ve never been able to maintain control.”
Feifer and Vizzini might have added that the difficulties of the invaders paled in comparison to the devastation wreaked upon the invaders’ Afghan victims who after all were slaughtered and maimed on a level surpassing the American imagination.
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Tags: Politics, Afghanistan, Barack Obama presidency, Eric Shensiki, Global Economic Crisis, Goldman Sachs, Gordon Duff, Gregory Feifer, MATT TAIBBI, Robert Scheer, The Princess Bride, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Vietnam Veterans, Vietnam Veterans of America
Vietnam War Veterans Called Bums
Wed, 07/08/2009 - 10:03am | mal contends
Funny how the most effective and most committed veteran advocates have nothing but profane language for those veterans who wrap themselves in the flag and scream Republican and God Bless America.
Take Gordon Duff, a Vietnam War Marine combat veteran and regular contributor to Veterans Today.
What Duff [that's the crazy SOB in photo] lacks in subtlety, he makes up in commitment and candor. From Duff's latest:
Take Gordon Duff, a Vietnam War Marine combat veteran and regular contributor to Veterans Today.
What Duff [that's the crazy SOB in photo] lacks in subtlety, he makes up in commitment and candor. From Duff's latest:
Who are these folks we see, festooned in vests and ribbons, all screaming for war against someone? Are they real Vietnam vets, aging holdovers from a disastrous war? Having spent 40 years as a Vietnam veteran, I have a pretty good idea. NO! ...
I served in an elite Marine combat unit that was 100% against the war. Everyone in Vietnam was. Why?
Shafting Vets Makes the News
Thu, 01/08/2009 - 2:04pm | mal contends
Not news among veterans’ advocates, but three pieces paint a sordid picture of what our country intentionally inflicts upon our veterans when it makes war.
War tends to produce results dysfunctional to future war-making so veterans and serving military personnel who point to any evidence of this truism risk a hostile government machinery.
Consider what happens when death gives a veteran a problem and the VA can’t make a fraud charge stick when a solider is diagnosed with the resulting Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), here’s an alternative tactic: Ruin a soilder’s career while he’s still in the service and take away as many benefits as possible.
See Army General Improperly Kicks Out Iraq War Soldier Diagnosed with PTSD (Veterans for Common Sense).
War tends to produce results dysfunctional to future war-making so veterans and serving military personnel who point to any evidence of this truism risk a hostile government machinery.
Consider what happens when death gives a veteran a problem and the VA can’t make a fraud charge stick when a solider is diagnosed with the resulting Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), here’s an alternative tactic: Ruin a soilder’s career while he’s still in the service and take away as many benefits as possible.
See Army General Improperly Kicks Out Iraq War Soldier Diagnosed with PTSD (Veterans for Common Sense).
