They're really 2 sides of the same coin. I've just been listening to the
podcast of last night's Flashpoints on which a professor points out how so
many of our military interventions and support of military coups in other
countries, are motivated by our government's support of business interests.
Why do you suppose we have a war on terror? It's to keep all those military
contractors in business and to keep the oil flowing so the fossil fuel
corporations will stay in business. It certainly doesn't have anything to do
with reducing terrorism. Quite the opposite, it fuels terrorism. And why did
we have a cold war and fight in Korea and Vietnam? Because our corporate
capitalists were so terrified that countries would give up Capitalism and
become socialist. We said we were concerned about the autocratic government
in Russia, but we weren't concerned about Capitalist autocratic governments,
and we weren't concerned about setting up new autocrats, so long as they
were our allies. The militarism is a means to an end. The end is unfettered
Capitalism which benefits a tiny percentage of multi billionaires.
Miriam
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Carl, We have 1.3 million troops stationed around the world. They are
trained to fight, not make peace. I worry much more about our militarization
than commercialism of holidays.
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Maybe Veterans Day would be a good Holiday to take over and promote
World Peace and Brother/Sisterhood. But we'd probably find a way to
corrupt it, if we did. Look at what we've done to Christmas, Easter,
Labor Day, Thanksgiving(football day), The Fourth of July, and even
Mother's Day. All have become highly commercialized. And we wonder
if Capitalism has any impact in our thinking?
My dad was born on November 11, 1912, just another regular day. For
his sixth birthday they declared it to be Armistice Day. But it's
hard to celebrate an armistice that went South, so they changed the
name to Veterans Day in honor of all the men...and later, women, who
went forward to defend the right of our Capitalists to plunder
wherever they chose. But anyway, since the day is used to having its
name changed, calling it World Peace Day would be no big deal. And as
long as Capitalism is our way of life, the name would not interfere
with the Capitalists from their plundering and stealing our hard
earned dollars.
Carl Jarvis
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