tao's Blog tag:tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com,2009:/talk/blogs/tao//8374 2009-11-25T04:11:12Z Movable Type Pro 4.21-en Music for the Pentagon's Warlord Christmas party. tag:tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com,2009:/talk/blogs/tao//8374.304267 2009-11-25T03:15:13Z 2009-11-25T04:11:12Z tao Have yourself a merry little skirmish.

Let your conscience hide.

From now on,

Our deficits are out of sight.

Have yourself a merry little skirmish.

Send the straights and gay.

From now on our lovers will be miles away.

Here we are as in olden days

In an endless bogus war.

Faithful friends who are dear to us

Stacked at Dover Base once more.

Through the years

Excuses will be endless

If's all one big cash cow.

Hang a giant flag upon the highest bough

And have yourself a merry little skirmish now.

 

 

Origional lyrics by Ralph Blane and music by Hugh Martin.   

]]> War is a Sure Thing tag:tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com,2009:/talk/blogs/tao//8374.262020 2009-03-18T15:32:23Z 2009-03-18T15:45:22Z tao War can't fail.  War doesn't have to be won or lost.  As long a war exists, powerful people get rich and politicians get bribed.  They -the war masters and our elected representatives - don't care about the people they devastate on either side.  The purpose of war was clearly shown when Nixon got elected on a promise to end Viet Nam and instead spun it out until 1975.  As long as people believe war is good business, there will be war.  The economic destruction of the U.S. is clearly a product of six decades of war is good business. 
Story:  I went to my father and asked about why I should let the army draft me.  He told me that when he was at KSU the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and a rumor went around campus that all the men in ROTC were to report to the football field the next morning to be inducted into the military.  It was just a rumor but every SD was there the next day.  He was troubled by the draft resistance movement of the late 1960's.  So I let them draft me and the military turned out to be everything the hippies said it was. 

Boink! Forty years later my nephew joined the army to get some 9/11 (Pearl Harbor II) payback.  He went with the 82d Airborne to Iraq and Afghanistan and was divorced and discharged with body at least intact.  Now two years after being discharged into an inactive reserve and starting a career, he is being called back for another 400 days in Afghanistan with some hokey reserve unit.  My son sees how our troops are being treated.  He would never join the military.  I rather doubt my nephew will encourage his children to join up either. 

Look.  Either we get over war as good business, or get ready for PH III. 

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