Another Real Man
Jan. 5th, 2004 10:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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ravenia for reminding me of Major General Smedley Butler, U.S.M.C., who would have been Fascist dictator of the United States in the 1930s except for one small problem -- he was a patriotic American who despised Fascism from the bottom of his heart.
He also spoke and wrote eloquently against war as a tool of corporate profit.
Yes, Virginia, there are such, even in the military.
After all, an old soldier has seen too many die for the flag to like to see it used to cover foreign conquest, domestic tyranny, and sordid corruption.
ravenia for reminding me of Major General Smedley Butler, U.S.M.C., who would have been Fascist dictator of the United States in the 1930s except for one small problem -- he was a patriotic American who despised Fascism from the bottom of his heart.He also spoke and wrote eloquently against war as a tool of corporate profit.
Yes, Virginia, there are such, even in the military.
After all, an old soldier has seen too many die for the flag to like to see it used to cover foreign conquest, domestic tyranny, and sordid corruption.