Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Honor
I miss the concept of honor, which used to be so important in the South. Today you hardly ever hear people talking about honor. Occasionally, you hear some mention of an honor code at the service academies, but usually in the context of its being violated. You hear more about rapes at the academies than about an honor code. And so we have Abu Ghraib, torture, and killing of innocent civilians. Such things happen in all wars, but they should be viewed with revulsion. Today they are just swept under the carpet, and life and death and the war just go on. Honor is an alien concept to this government, including to most of those elected from the South; certainly it is alien to those from Texas.
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War is hell, but that phrase is way way over used. I am unable to believe you hale from the South for your idea of honor sounds of the North, sir. The war goes on because those of the north and like yourself have hammered on Bush since he got in office and if it hasn't been you, Sir, it is you who have grabbed onto that caboose. The South is honorable and honor is fighting against your enemy. Dishonor is saying something like,
ReplyDelete"...and the war goes on...".
I don't think there is any honor in torture. Why Bush wants authorization to torture prisoners is beyond me. It's not only un-Southern, it's un-American, immoral and inhumane. It's not honorable to invade a country and then leave it in worse shape than it was before -- no security, no electricity, no sewers. That's what the North did to the South during Reconstruction. It took the South generations to recover.
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't me who was the coward who was afraid to serve in Vietnam, it was Bush and Cheney. It wasn't me who was afraid to return to Washington immediately after the 9/11 attacks, it was Bush who detoured all over the country.
It would be honorable to send enough troops to stabilize the security situation in Iraq and Afghanistan and not be afraid to ask Americans to make sacrifices to do it, as Bush is.