By the Mad Dog
The Walton Recorder published this letter of mine in September.
The war “against terrorism”, is more accurately described as the global war for oil. For many years, Delaware County has produced a precious commodity, which our military and global capitalist economy can’t do without. That commodity are the patriotic youth that enlist in the military.
According to a study by demographer William O’Hare, the death rate for “rural soldiers is 60% higher than the death rate for those soldiers from cities and suburbs.” Rural youth join the military at higher rates than those from metropolitan areas, because rural areas offer young people few alternatives to military service. The situation is best describes as “economic conscription.”
Rudyard Kipling wrote: “If any question why we died tell them because our fathers lied.” Bush lied about Saddam Hussein having weapons of mass destruction and ties to al-Qaeda.
Delaware County youth could be enlisting in the military to become warriors for a Christian God. In 2003, an Associated Press poll found that 77% of Evangelicals favored the Iraqi war. Additionally, 62%, of Catholics and mainline Protestants were in favor of war.
Furthermore, some Evangelical, Protestant and Catholic voters in Delaware County were encourage from the pulpit not to vote for John Kerry in order to re-elect, born-again Christian, George W. Bush and thereby continue the killing.
Satirist Mark Twain’s “War Prayer” was in response to an assertion that this is a Christian country: “O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of guns with the shriek of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire... We ask it in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the source of love.”
The war “against terrorism”, is more accurately described as the global war for oil. For many years, Delaware County has produced a precious commodity, which our military and global capitalist economy can’t do without. That commodity are the patriotic youth that enlist in the military.
According to a study by demographer William O’Hare, the death rate for “rural soldiers is 60% higher than the death rate for those soldiers from cities and suburbs.” Rural youth join the military at higher rates than those from metropolitan areas, because rural areas offer young people few alternatives to military service. The situation is best describes as “economic conscription.”
Rudyard Kipling wrote: “If any question why we died tell them because our fathers lied.” Bush lied about Saddam Hussein having weapons of mass destruction and ties to al-Qaeda.
Delaware County youth could be enlisting in the military to become warriors for a Christian God. In 2003, an Associated Press poll found that 77% of Evangelicals favored the Iraqi war. Additionally, 62%, of Catholics and mainline Protestants were in favor of war.
Furthermore, some Evangelical, Protestant and Catholic voters in Delaware County were encourage from the pulpit not to vote for John Kerry in order to re-elect, born-again Christian, George W. Bush and thereby continue the killing.
Satirist Mark Twain’s “War Prayer” was in response to an assertion that this is a Christian country: “O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of guns with the shriek of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire... We ask it in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the source of love.”
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