Now that we have thanked the men and women who have served and continue to serve in our nation’s military, it is appropriate that we give deep thought to how can make their service obsolete.
Nearly all nations have soldiers, but not all nations are free. Having a great military does not make us a great nation. Only a nation worth fighting for can consecrate the sacrifice of those who give their lives and take the lives of others in our name. The poets, the thinkers, the artists, and indeed, all the citizens must exercise the freedoms that others have fought for, or the fighting— stop— let us call it what it is: the killing and dying— will truly all have been in vain.
Let the United States of America not aspire to be the greatest military power in the world. We have already reached this questionable goal. Let us aspire instead to make military might unnecessary, and indeed, as unthinkable and anathematic as slavery is now.
And let us say -- amayn.
Posted by: Bob | 11/12/2012 at 06:04 PM