Good for you, Mayor Ryan. Sometimes I wonder if we're still fighting the wars because no one even talks about them. Fortunately, our local paper lists the dead soldiers from both wars on an almost daily basis. And the national cemetery nearby has weekly interments for dead military. Otherwise, not much is said or done regarding the wars. Congress OKs many billions every few months to keep the slaughter and defense thefts going. And President Obama should be ashamed of himself for lying about pulling out a brigade a month from Iraq 60 days after inauguration and not mentioning that he would direct a surge in Afghanistan. Like his predecessor, he must have no conscience regarding all of those dead soldiers and how the wars are destroying our treasury, all for nothing.
Mayor Matthew Ryan: A hero for our time.
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What you say about "no one even talks about them" is what people meant in the campaign when they glibly said they'd "end the war." In Vietnam, the war and the killing didn't end when we left. It simply got worse. But we didn't see it, so it ended. The idea was that they'd "end the war" like you'd cancel a TV show: The cameras leave, so nothing is happening anymore. The difference, of course, was that it wasn't Americans dying in Vietnam after that "ended," but does that really make it just fine?
As for the Mayor, the interesting thing is that national defense is one of the few enumerated powers of the Constitution. The states and localities are responsible for the things he list -- or used to be, or would be, if we stuck to that document even a little.
Unfortunately, the mayor likewise will get no coverage -- since the war protests, too, "ended," under the same definition given above.
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