These days, I have a hard time blogging. For the most part, it seems a pointless exercise — at least, it seems pointless to do the kind of blogging that changes minds and convinces people that we really do need to examine our lives, our attitudes, and our public policy, to understand how we might return to being the great nation we once were — and now only fool ourselves into thinking we still are.

Oh, sure, we’re still a strong country, if strength is measured by how many of our people can kill multiples of someone else’s people before a few of ours must die.

But our kids — and let’s remember, most of our soldiers dying are our kids — didn’t enlist in an effort to show the rest of the world who the real bad assholes badasses of the world are.

At least, I hope that’s not why we have veterans.

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