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Originally posted by eple
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Good article filtherton. Militarism takes many disguises, but this one is pretty obvious. What is the point of remembering the sacirfice made by soliders if it is only used to support the ones responsible for the wars in the first place? We honour our soliders in Norway too, but the point is never to support militarist paradigms, rather to remember the madness and evil of war.
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Sorry but lets not over generalize here. I'm glad that dolt was fired, since I rather doubt the population of England was fighting for the wealth and power of the few.
There are times you need to defend yourself from the aggressive nature of others and yes that can be glorious. War brings out the best and worst in men, it is the greatest trail there is, and to belittle the sacrifice of a nation as nothing but a maiming for the good of the powerful is disgusting.
War is as much a part of human nature as sex, you can't wish it away.