Reply #1: The cost of nobility [View All]

[PATRICK]

Should be seen in such memorials as the burned out corpses strung up over a solid huge base of realistically portrayed enemy casualties including women and children. If the memorial is to war than that is it. If it is to the soldiers who died believing in the cause that is another matter, but it also entails whether that cause is real to begin with, outside of the young programmed minds and the surface liberation/democracy.

Better yet a monument to WMD. An empty pedestal.

How can anyone allow their children to be cannon fodder for possible corporate dictators and then ennoble their victimhood and complicity in murder and exploitation? Easy. Buy totally into the "bright side" and individual personal commitment and patriotism.

And no, the demonization of soldiers, pretty much the same sort of courageous(or brutalized) fellows throughout history, is not appropriate. They are usually part of the victim class for the sake of the myth protected few. War is really all about the perps. Sometimes THEY get monuments. Those we can tear down.