Calling soldiers “pawns” doesn’t diminish them as people. It diminishes the government that sends them to be killed or maimed in wars that aren’t about self-defense or defense of human rights…

I wish they’d play “The Band Played Waltzing Matilda” instead of patriotic music every Memorial Day:

It’s closer to the reality of what happens to humans in a war. People being used, lip service given to honoring them, but in the end it’s a big racket. The only real winners are Exxon, Lockheed, and Goldman Sachs.