Monday, May 30, 2011

Memorial Day

Remember to say bromides about "protecting our freedoms" appropriately -- in, uh, Afghanistan.

KABUL, Afghanistan, May 27 (UPI) -- Improvised explosive device blasts in southern Afghanistan killed eight U.S. troops in one of the worst such attacks on record, military officials said.


And...

A NATO airstrike targeting insurgents inadvertently hit two civilian homes in the volatile southwestern Helmand province, killing 12 children and two women, an Afghan government official said Sunday...

He said NATO hit two civilian houses, killing five girls, seven boys and two women.


And about those "freedoms":

US President Barack Obama approved the four-year extension of the Patriot Act on Thursday, May 26, 2011, while on his Europe tour.


Why fight to protect "freedom" -- no matter whether the place is irrelevant or outdated -- when you are so willing to sign them away?

4 comments:

Montag said...

Why fight to protect "freedom" -- no matter whether the place is irrelevant or outdated -- when you are so willing to sign them away?

Uh... lots of money to be made?

All those things translate to more money being spent on a bunch of war-profiteering scumbags. Even bombs landing on civilians have to be replaced in the inventory....

Anonymous said...

Batman 54 said:

How our hearts burned with indignation against the atrocious Spaniards!. . . But when the smoke was over, the dead buried, and the cost of the war came back to the people in an increase in the price of commodities and rent-that is, when we sobered up from our patriotic spree-it suddenly dawned on us that the cause of the Spanish-American war was the price of sugar. . . . that the live, blood, and money of the American people were used to protect the interests of the American capitalists.
- Emma Goldman - A few years after the Spanish-American War.

StonyPillow said...

Let's not get confused about freedom here.

pansypoo said...

we are paying for georgee's switch to iWaq.