Mike Ditka, The Vietnam War And America's Ongoing Validation Of Violence

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Don't tolerate bad thinking based on fake news and "alternative facts."

Resist Ditka.

Resist Trump.

Dear C,

The worst aspect of Trump - or maybe it's the best - is that we finally see America's true face, continually oppressive, racist, warmongering, slave-holding, fratricidal, mass-murderously violent and even genocidal.

Would America Care If Trump Nuked North Korea? 
Stanford-Dartmouth Research Says No

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/08/would-america-care-if-trump-nuked-north.html

At the same time, we see America's continual denial of all these incontrovertible facts.

Mike Ditka: There Has Been "No Racial Oppression In The Last Hundred Years"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/10/mike-ditka-there-has-been-no-racial.html

George Washington Orders The "Complete Destruction" Of Iroquois Settlements

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/02/general-george-washington-orders.html

Alright, I Was Wrong... Mexico Will Pay For The Wall

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/02/alright-i-was-wrong-mexico-will-pay-for.html

How many Ken Burns' "Vietnam War" episodes did you see?

Perhaps my most notable meta-level takeaway from Burns and Novick is that Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon all knew that the war not only sucked but was destined to failure.

Even so, they chose to prolong the folly, and in so doing, used American GIs as cannon fodder to secure their election or re-election.

Remarkably, almost half of the GI death tally came AFTER every 1968 presidential candidate called for an end to the war.

Compendium Of Best Pax Posts On Organized Religion And The Everyday Validation Of Violence

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/04/compendium-of-best-pax-posts-on.html

Pax tecum

Alan