“‘One nation in history has laid down hundreds and thousands of the lives of its sons and daughters and taken no land.'” (Shimon Peres)…“That’s great news. Who doesn’t enjoy volunteering other people?” (Mark Steyn)
[Image: James Cagney, singing George M. Cohan's “patriotic” “Over There,” in 1942 movie…Yankee Doodle Dandy.…“Over There” Lyrics by George M. Cohan, written in 1917 to persuade Americans to cross a vast ocean to fight World War I because they were “the Yanks,” special of all people on earth, proving their “patriotism” by leaving their families and dying “over there” on foreign soil to enrich European elites and Wall St: ““The war should be a tremendous opportunity for America.”—J.P. Morgan, personal letter to President Woodrow Wilson, September 4, 1914.”
Get your gun, get your gun,
Take it on the run,
On the run, on the run.
Hear them calling, you and me,
Every son of liberty.
Hurry right away,
No delay, go today,
Make your daddy glad
To have had such a lad.
Tell your sweetheart not to pine,
To be proud her boy’s in line.
Over there, over there,
Send the word, send the word over there –
That the Yanks are coming,
The Yanks are coming,
The drums rum-tumming
Everywhere.
So prepare, say a prayer,
Send the word, send the word to beware.
We’ll be over, we’re coming over,
And we won’t come back till it’s over
Over there
Johnnie, get your gun,
Get your gun, get your gun,
Johnnie show the Hun
Who’s a son of a gun.
Hoist the flag and let her fly,
Yankee Doodle do or die.
Pack your little kit,
Show your grit, do your bit.
Yankee to the ranks,
From the towns and the tanks.
Make your mother proud of you,
And the old Red, White and Blue.
Over there, over there,
Send the word, send the word over there –
That the Yanks are coming,
The Yanks are coming,
The drums rum-tumming
Everywhere.
So prepare, say a prayer,
Send the word, send the word to beware.
We’ll be over, we’re coming over,
And we won’t come back till it’s over
Over there.”
Publisher: Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group”
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He said ‘America is unique in history of earth.’” Romney told the audience. “He said ‘In the history of the earth, whenever there’s been conflict, the nation that wins takes land from the nation that loses, because land has always been the source of value on the planet. (Peres) said, ‘One nation in history has laid down hundreds and thousands of the lives of its sons and daughters and taken no land– no land from Germany, no land from Japan.”
He continued, “This is a great nation. A nation of people who will sacrifice for things bigger than themselves.””
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Added: Additional source: “It’s not merely that “our military is being volunteered by others,” but that Washington has been happy to volunteer it as the de facto expeditionary force for the “international community.”…That’s great news. Who doesn’t enjoy volunteering other people?”
3/28/2011, “The Art of Inconclusive War,“ Mark Steyn
“Why is it that the United States no longer wins wars? It is tempting and certainly very easy to point out that Obama’s war (or Obama’s “kinetic military action,”…or whatever the latest ever more preposterous evasion is) is at odds with everything candidate Obama said about U.S. military action before his election. And certainly every attempt the president makes to explain his Libyan adventure is either cringe-makingly stupid (“I’m accustomed to this contradiction of being both a commander-in-chief but also somebody who aspires to peace”) or alarmingly revealing of a very peculiar worldview:
“That’s why building this international coalition has been so important,” he said the other day. “It is our military that is being volunteered by others to carry out missions that are important not only to us, but are important internationally.”
That’s great news. Who doesn’t enjoy volunteering other people? The Arab League, for reasons best known to itself, decided that Colonel Qaddafi had outlived his sell-by date….How difficult could it be even for Arab armies to knock off a psychotic transvestite guarded by Austin Powers fembots? But no: Instead, the Arab League decided to volunteer the U.S. military. Likewise, the French and the British….
American forces have been fighting and dying in Afghanistan for a decade [as of 2011]: Doesn’t that seem like a long time for a non-colonial power to be spending hacking its way through the worthless terrain of a Third World dump? If the object is to kill terrorists, might there not be some slicker way of doing it?
And, if the object is something else entirely, mightn’t it be nice to know what it is?…
Libya, in that sense, is a classic post-nationalist, post-modern military intervention: As in Kosovo, we’re do-gooders in a land with no good guys. But, unlike Kosovo, not only is there no strategic national interest in what we’re doing, the intended result is likely to be explicitly at odds with U.S. interests….
Now suddenly he’s [Qaddafi] got to go — in favor of “freedom-loving” “democrats” from Benghazi. That would be in eastern Libya — which…has sent per capita the highest number of foreign jihadists to Iraq….If we lack, as we do in Afghanistan, the cultural confidence to wean those we liberate from their less attractive pathologies, we might at least think twice before actively facilitating them….
The United States is responsible for 43 percent of the planet’s military spending.…It’s not merely that “our military is being volunteered by others,” but that Washington has been happy to volunteer it as the de facto expeditionary force for the “international community.” Sometimes U.S. troops sail under U.N. colors, sometimes NATO’s, and now in Libya even the Arab League’s. Either way, it makes little difference: America provides most of the money, men, and materiel. All that changes is the transnational figleaf.
But lost along the way is hard-headed, strategic calculation of the national interest. “They won’t come back till it’s over/Over there!” sang George M. Cohan as the doughboys marched off in 1917….Now it’s never over over there — not in Korea, not in Kuwait, not in Kosovo, not in Kandahar. Next stop Kufra?”…
— “Mark Steyn, a National Review columnist, is author of America Alone. © 2011 Mark Steyn”
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Added: In 1945 one nuclear bomb dropped on Japan would’ve been more than enough. Truman dropped two atom bombs on Japan in 1945, 3 days apart: August 6 on Hiroshima and August 9 on Nagasaki, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians:
“The United States government of today is arguably more Truman’s than it is any other president’s, one of thoughtless cruelty and mechanized violence, of lawless, arbitrary power exercised by an officialdom responsible to no one.…Fires burned for days following the bombings, making unrecognizable wastelands of what had been lively cities. If words and facts yet have meaning, then these are among the worst terrorist acts in humankind’s history (perhaps the worst) and Truman is among history’s most abominable terrorists."…March 20, 2019, “Everything Wrong with the Truman Administration,” David S. D’Amato, libertarianism.org
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Comment: A century of “sons and daughters” being global slaves is enough. US must either become neutral or be broken up into 3 or 4 parts. We the slaves must free ourselves.
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