The Lamest Defense of the Military
February 11, 2014
With apologies to all lame people. Regarding the filthy and violent military cadences that I have sometimes made mention of, I think the lamest defense of the military ever is when veterans and family members of LRC readers (who then write to me) say to them: “I never heard that cadence when I was in the military.” The reasoning is that Vance is a liar because they never heard recited the cadence that I mentioned in an article or a blog post. How many military bases are/were in operation at any given time? Hundreds you say. And yet because one guy did not hear a particular cadence at the one base he was at at a particular point in time, the things I say about the military are lies.
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.
Idiotic Janet Yellen