The New MREs
September 16, 2014
Regarding the military’s new Meals Ready-to-Eat (MRE), I was just informed by someone who was given some to eat, comes with “a pack of “Patriot Cookies” instead of animal cookies. Instead of lions and tigers, you get to enjoy a flag cookie. Instead of elephants, you enjoy busts of Uncle Sam. And instead of camels and hippos, the treat is a liberty torch, or the letters US.” This should come as no surprise since the U.S. government is the greatest propaganda machine in the history of the world. Just look at the billboard ads for the Marines: “For Our Nation, For Us All.”
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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