Sorry for the formatting... just capturing another FB argument.
Catherine Gile likes an article on The Daily Beast.
Saturday at 5:15pm ·
She is an outstanding woman.
Lara Logan’s War Cry
www.thedailybeast.comThe CBS News and ‘60 Minutes’ correspondent stunned a Chicago audience with her interventionist critique of America’s response to the attacks in Libya. James Warren reports.
Catherine
Gile It's refreshing to see someone in the mainstream media brave
enough to speak out loudly.
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Bob
Stone She knows firsthand of the violence as she was attacked
personally while in Egypt covering the situation there. She barely survived.
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Tom Hail
She is an outstanding woman and I've always respected her reporting. I would
have to question her impartiality after what happened to her in Egypt. She
knows first hand we can't "Shoot ’em, bomb ’em, fuck ’em. They will kill
your children." without killing their children. That makes me think she is
on a revenge thing for the attack on her. What a mess. There is no solving it
almost to anyone's satisfaction.
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Bob
Stone Tom of course she has a "Revenge thing" going on. I
want revenge on the ones that attacked her and also the ones that killed our
people in Lybia. It's not REVENGE it is called JUSTICE!!! Someday there will be
a time you will have to stand and fight and protect your family and yourself,
WILL YOU???
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Tom Hail
And she'll get justice from who? She was attacked in Egypt by the religion of
Islam with its medieval regard for women. Not by Al-Qaeda or the Taliban who
are just parts of that religion of ignorance. Libya is, with it's Islamic
drivers, a power struggle. Is justice being sought by the US? I think so! When
has it not? By Obama's administration more so than the last administration who
got distracted by Iraq. She advocates a level of conflict that would be global
in nature. Against who? WWII was against specific countries and foes. Fighting
Islam and its people with force will accomplish nothing, much like the war on
drugs. Only education and time will end this and I don't see it happening with
stupid shit like this. Will justice be achieved from everyone's point of view?
No. Never. Only education and prosperity will end it. Stand and fight? That is
what I do every day.
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Bob
Stone FIGHT! For what and for whom. Actions speak louder than words
and time is running out.
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Tom Hail
Time is running out? What is the timeline? There is a deadline? We have all the
time it takes to either solve the conflicts or destroy ourselves.
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Bob
Stone The timeline runs out for every member of our armed forces
that is killed or wounded and the people such as Lara Logan and the little 14
year old Pakistani girl who only wnated an education. Talk to a GOLD star
family about timelines. You say you stand and fight everyday, again for what
and for whom??
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Tom Hail
Ha! And how many thousands more service men and women will die following
Logan's path? Not to mention civilians. By your reasoning, time has already run
out. I fight for a prosperous future for my kids, my community, my nation, my
species. Prosperity brings justice. Education brings prosperity. Fighting
indiscriminately does not. In the short term hunting the Libyan terrorists is
necessary but it doesn't bring justice for everyone. Some satisfaction for
some, but that doesn't solve anything.
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Bob
Stone By prosparity,do you mean money, wealth,being better than your
neighbor, having more than anyone less fortunite? You will fight for yourself
only, or will you stand and fight for all people who are not allowed to
"Prosper" in the way you GOT YOURS. What if you were not fortunate to
be born in America and have the opportunities you had all your life. Is justice
being you and letting the less fortunate of the world FIGHT and DIE just
wanting to get and education so they too can prosper same as you? Some people
have to fight for their lives before they can fight for their prosperity.
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Tom Hail
No, prosperity is living without fear with food and shelter and being able to
grow and explore. The point is to understand that the need to FIGHT and DIE
isn't the only way to prosperity. Education gets people there. Someday it may
be clear to everyone. In the meantime people will continue to fight and die
futilely. Logan's way.
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Bob
Stone OK then. Some people have to fight for their lives before they
can fight for an education to become prosperious. Freedom isn't free! It's paid
for by the ones who have fought and died for it. That is fact not futile
attemts.
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Bob
Stone ATTEMPTS.
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Catherine
Gile If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything.
Freedom is not free I don't care what university taught you otherwise. There
are people out there who hate you because you do not think like they do and btw
they far out number you.
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Tom Hail
Huh? It's pretty easy to say the old trope "freedom isn't free" and
not really understand it. The cost of freedom isn't just fighting and dying in
defense of it. You also have to fix the causes for the conflicts and military
actions can not do that. Did I say not to defend yourself? To not bring to
trial those responsible for terror or crime? Have I said anything like that?
Have I not spent 30+ years of my life as a defense contractor engineer? I am
not a pacifist. Sure they outnumber me, but you know what? This country is
doing very little to solve the problems. Mainly because of attitudes of fear
like yours. It prevents solutions. Believe it or not, progress is being made,
prosperity is increasing around the world over the last 100 years. But I see
that fear and irrational thinking can easily undo years of progress.
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Catherine
Gile My attitude is not fear based it is reality based. What
progress are you talking about, the progress of progressive thinking people?
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Bob
Stone HUH???? Defence Contractor Engineer( nice title). If fighting
for freedom insn't an answer to keeping free and "prosrerious" what
are you doing working for a DEFENCE CONTRACTOR? You must hate your job
supporting and supplying the tools of war to this nation. I also put my entire
professional life in service to keeping this country safe while working for the
Dept. of Defence DARCOM, plus a tour in the U.S. Army in Vietnam seening the
reality of what FIGHTING for freedom means . I most likely just don't get it.
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Tom Hail
Fact. The rate of starvation in the world has decreased, military conflict
decreased, health improved over the last 100 years. That is progress. If it
improves for everyone, the fear and injustice declines. Your attitude does
nothing to improve it and can cause it to set back. Here is an old trope "
lead, follow, or get out of the way." If we aren't leading the world to
improve, they will push us out of the way. We are leading today but barely.
That can change easily with isolationist fearful thinking. Bob, you made my
description of my job a title. I am the Milstar Flight Engineering Manager at
in addition to being the spacecraft Certified Principle Engineer for on-orbit
operations. Milstar is a communications satellite supporting all branches of
the US DOD and State Dept. We strive for and achieve nearly 100% dependability
of that constellation of satellites. I do not hate my job. Not the technical
side anyway. I am proud of our support to the troops around the world whatever
they are doing. I know what they have been doing. One of the most deadly things
to a guy on the ground is to lose communications with his team, leadership, and
command. The dependable flow of information also means that fewer innocent
people get killed, that unnecessary destruction is not wrecked. I also know the
flow of diplomatic information saves lives and helps find solutions. That is
the part I can do. What they do with it in the Pentagon and White House can
only be affected by my vote. Bush was an idiot, Cheney a crook, they killed thousands
of our troops, squandered our resources in Iraq and fucked up Afghanistan. Why
you would vote for Romney/Ryan blows my mind, they are the same idiots and not
smart enough to be crooks! Fighting for freedom comes in many different forms,
not just with military force. Occupy Wallstreet was a freedom fight. The
blasphemy rights fights, civil rights, gay rights.... they are all freedom
fights. You were part of a very violent fight but not the only fight.
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Bob
Stone Tom, thank you for your clarification of your job description.
Keep um flying. The decisions that are made in the White House affects what
happens in this country and now the world over. As far as the flow of
dipllomatic information saving lives goes ,One Ambassidor and three others dead
and no solution in site!! Another four years of Obama and company is all the
reason needed to change leadership . Hope your satellite can find an answer.
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