Oh, Oh, Oh, What a Lovely War!

Today is Memorial Day, which means lots of war films and military concerts and specials glorifyng soldiers. And lots of use of the expression I detest: "fallen soldiers". They are not fallen, they are dead. Maybe they fell to their death, but they are not fallen and using that euphemism doesn't make them any more dead. It just makes the military feel more justified in sending these kids off to be slaughtered. There are times of course when it's justified. World War II was one of those times. Iraq was not. It was a stupid, unnecessary ego-driven war created by Dick Cheney, his idiotic puppet George Bush and other evil pricks.  Afghanistan was also unnecessary. As if invading a country that allowed a terrorist group training grounds that led to 9-11 was reason enough to send still more thousands of Americans into this hellhole to be killed or maimed made any sense. It doesn't. But as long as people love killing each other, and they do, we will have wars and conflicts and skirmishes and massacres like the one in Syria this week. And so the evil warmongers can keep enjoying their favorite sport, they will try to glamorize the deaths of those who are forced to fight these wars by having parades and concerts and waving flags not for "dead kids' but for "fallen soldiers".