Monday, September 2, 2013
Assets
Chuck Hagel, our Defense Secretary, says we have moved "assets" to the area around Syria. I don't think these assets moved by themselves or by remote computers. Assets is a new way of saying "persons," as in human beings. This way the government tries to keep us from questioning why we are sending, say, 20,000 human beings to intervene in a war in Syria. Is the new term for a dead person to be "loss of assets." Do we say to a grieving family, "Your asset is lost." Join the military. Become an asset. When the church starts saying that Jesus came to save all assets, I know the end will be near!
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We seem to be in a state of war that has no end. Did this begin with Bush and the invasion of Iraq or with Pope Urban II in 1096?
ReplyDeleteWe pray for peace but how to act? Can Muslims and Christians ever love one another? Did not Christ command this?
The phrase that bothers me is "boots on the ground". Our young people have been reduced to footware. I am very tire is spin doctors who try to pretty up a horrible reality.
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