Who Needs Warriors? The Empire Does. US Army Revving Up its Ad Campaigns. “Ultimate Fight” for Country
The US Army, perhaps in need of
more ‘boots on the sand’, is revving up its ad campaigns. The latest
television ad says it plain and clear: Warriors Wanted! (see
screen shot below) And why not just appeal to the childlike, video game
raised young men and women to join up? Then they can get away
from
having to work a dead end job, or spend years in college studying (at
great expense by the way) for uncertain future employment.
Now these low income young kids
can serve their country by becoming occupiers of another Arab country
that they themselves really don’t understand why they are even IN!
This baby boomer cannot even conceive
of how far my nation has regressed culturally. The celebration of
violence is rampant! Who would have ever imagined the popularity of what they actually have the nerve to call a sport in Ultimate Fighting? If
you have not yet watched one of these (so called) matches, please do;
but first sit and watch the gladiator school scene from the 1960 film Spartacus.
US Marines: Ultimate Fighting
You will see, more or less, just what
this newest form of ‘Violence as Sport’ has given us. So, the same young
men (and some women) who grew up on violent video games, and then
graduated to UFC, make a great source for this new empire’s army of warriors. I am not taking away from the super physical abilities of those who fight in those caged rings, taken right out of Spartacus. Just
as with professional boxers and athletes from all sports, these folks
are dedicated and train very hard. It is just that to celebrate violence
is NOT what we humans are supposed to have evolved out of, and not back into.
When this writer played college
football back in the 70s, there were but a few of my teammates who took
‘uppers’ and steroids for better performance. Nowadays, they have to
continually drug test all athletes because of the preponderance of new
and better forms of these enhancers. Research has also come out
that, in the arena of US phony wars and occupations, the military has
given out ‘uppers’ and who knows what else to our soldiers in the Middle
East.
It used to be, back in my day, that
the rock and roll mantra of ‘Let’s go get stoned’ meant smoking some
marijuana and chilling out. Nowadays, it is to get perched like a
falcon, ready to attack its prey. Sadly, many of those young men (and
some women) who return home from those phony war zones in the desert,
become our local police officers. Is that who you want to ‘serve and
protect’ your community? Nice young men and women who join up, then get
indoctrinated to see all A-Rabs as potential terrorists, get sent to
places they never should have been sent to, do terrible killings and return home as ‘damaged (psychological) goods’.
Let’s send those men and women
dressed in nice suits who run these phony wars to the hot desert’s
hornet’s nest. Hand them the helmets and powerful killing instruments
and let them act like the warriors that the commercials trumpet. You’ll
see how fast our overseas ‘foreign entanglements’ end.
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Philip A Farruggio
is a son and grandson of Brooklyn , NYC longshoremen. He has been a
free lance columnist since 2001, with over 400 of his work posted on
sites like Global Research, Greanville Post, Off Guardian, Consortium
News, Information Clearing House, Nation of Change, World News Trust, Op
Ed News, Dissident Voice, Activist Post, Sleuth Journal, Truthout and
many others. His blog can be read in full on World News Trust, whereupon
he writes a great deal on the need to cut military spending drastically
and send the savings back to save our cities. Philip has a internet
interview show, ‘It’s the Empire… Stupid’ with producer Chuck Gregory,
and can be reached at paf1222@bellsouth.net.
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