You Call that Serving the Country?
January 29, 2014
Lew, the Army Ranger used by Obama last night who made ten deployments to fight in unjust wars is “working toward the day when he can serve his country again.” How can people call going on ten deployments serving the country? Serving the state is more like it. Being a hired killer for the state in places where you have no business going and getting disabled for life while doing it can be called a lot of things, but certainly not serving the country.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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