http://www.vamortgagecenter.com/blog/2008/04/28/politics-and-the-military/ Updated information on Veteran Benefits, featured Military Bloggers, and various other news and information relevant to Veterans. Sat, 5 Jul 2008 01:31:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 http://www.vamortgagecenter.com/blog/2008/04/28/politics-and-the-military/#comment-57935 Bill Grisham Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:13:16 +0000 http://www.vamortgagecenter.com/blog/2008/04/28/politics-and-the-military/#comment-57935 Yes, you are limited in your expression of political candidates' support and involvement, but don't let that keep you from paying attention to what's going on in the political world. Remember that whoever you pick to support with your limited ability should be someone with integrity and honesty (if these things still exist in the persons at this level of politics). Most politicians will say anything to any group to get their support. Pay attention because the conflicts these politicians get the country into will be fought by soldiers, sailors and airmen just like yourself. Are you sure you want to fight for the man you support? Or is it actually a conflict that is required to protect the country from external harm? These things have to be considered because your life is on the line much more than the general citizenry here at home. William Graham Sumner made the following observations: “Every man and woman in society has one big duty. That is to take care of his or her own self. This is a social duty. For, fortunately, the matter stands so that the duty of making the best of one’s self individually is not a separate thing from the duty of filling one’s place in society, but the two are one, and the latter is accomplished when the former is done.” “The danger of minding other people’s business is twofold. First, there is the danger that a man may leave his business unattended to; and, second, there is the danger of an impertinent interference with another’s affairs. The ‘friends of humanity’ almost always run into both dangers.” "War is never a handy remedy, which can be taken up and applied by routine rule. No war which can be avoided is just to the people who have to carry it on, to say nothing of the enemy. . . . In the forum of reason and deliberation war never can be anything but a makeshift, to be regretted; it is the task of the statesman to find rational means to the same end." The Conquest of the United States by Spain and Other Essays [1898] Sit down and read, educate yourself for the coming conflicts. Your In Liberty, Bill Grisham Yes, you are limited in your expression of political candidates’ support and involvement, but don’t let that keep you from paying attention to what’s going on in the political world. Remember that whoever you pick to support with your limited ability should be someone with integrity and honesty (if these things still exist in the persons at this level of politics). Most politicians will say anything to any group to get their support. Pay attention because the conflicts these politicians get the country into will be fought by soldiers, sailors and airmen just like yourself. Are you sure you want to fight for the man you support? Or is it actually a conflict that is required to protect the country from external harm? These things have to be considered because your life is on the line much more than the general citizenry here at home.
William Graham Sumner made the following observations:
“Every man and woman in society has one big duty. That is to take care of his or her own self. This is a social duty. For, fortunately, the matter stands so that the duty of making the best of one’s self individually is not a separate thing from the duty of filling one’s place in society, but the two are one, and the latter is accomplished when the former is done.”
“The danger of minding other people’s business is twofold. First, there is the danger that a man may leave his business unattended to; and, second, there is the danger of an impertinent interference with another’s affairs. The ‘friends of humanity’ almost always run into both dangers.”
“War is never a handy remedy, which can be taken up and applied by routine rule. No war which can be avoided is just to the people who have to carry it on, to say nothing of the enemy. . . . In the forum of reason and deliberation war never can be anything but a makeshift, to be regretted; it is the task of the statesman to find rational means to the same end.” The Conquest of the United States by Spain and Other Essays [1898]
Sit down and read, educate yourself for the coming conflicts.
Your In Liberty, Bill Grisham

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