The name change was fucking psychological manipulation for the population. You can’t argue against defense department spending as easily as you can argue against war department spending.
Bring it on! Make our jobs easier you bumbling brainrotted doughnut dictator.
To make a slight counter, the Defense Department does more than fight. We have humanitarian mission capabilities, and we use it. When shit goes down, you want the military to roll in.
I’ve told the story many times, but after Hurricane Ivan I assumed I was on my own. When the Florida Guard rolled in the next morning I was weeping in the streets, on my knees, thank god, thank god. I had no idea there would be any aid. Most humbling. Tearing up now in fact.
I also wept, most literally, when the Mississippi Guard rolled in after Katrina. My FIL was there. Two bronze stars from Iraq, the Mississippi coast broke him, PTSD. He was never the same man after cutting houses in half with chainsaws, pushing corpses aside, leading the tip of the spear.
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
Came here to say this. It’s exactly when it became the department of defense that we had never ending war.
Though I’d still like it to be named the department of defense and then actually do defense. Unless there is a threat of an American being attacked on domestic ground by a foreign power, this isn’t really the intended purpose of the military under our constitution.
We should not “defend” our “interests abroad.” We shouldn’t have interests abroad. That’s also one of the founding ideas of this country. “Defend our interest abroad” is an intentionally vague euphemism for “if we didn’t use a euphemism and just told you in plain words what we’re doing you wouldn’t like it because what we are doing is killing people to protect the profits of a very tiny number of people whose company would lose profit if we didn’t.” If that’s not what that euphemism means they wouldn’t need a euphemism.
Lmfao finally something I’m glad he’s doing!
The name change was fucking psychological manipulation for the population. You can’t argue against defense department spending as easily as you can argue against war department spending.
Bring it on! Make our jobs easier you bumbling brainrotted doughnut dictator.
To make a slight counter, the Defense Department does more than fight. We have humanitarian mission capabilities, and we use it. When shit goes down, you want the military to roll in.
I’ve told the story many times, but after Hurricane Ivan I assumed I was on my own. When the Florida Guard rolled in the next morning I was weeping in the streets, on my knees, thank god, thank god. I had no idea there would be any aid. Most humbling. Tearing up now in fact.
I also wept, most literally, when the Mississippi Guard rolled in after Katrina. My FIL was there. Two bronze stars from Iraq, the Mississippi coast broke him, PTSD. He was never the same man after cutting houses in half with chainsaws, pushing corpses aside, leading the tip of the spear.
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
Whoever said it, or didn’t, we need such men.
Hopefully his next announcement will be from the Dark House in the Doughnut Office from behind the Whimsical Desk.
Truly a broken clock.
Came here to say this. It’s exactly when it became the department of defense that we had never ending war.
Though I’d still like it to be named the department of defense and then actually do defense. Unless there is a threat of an American being attacked on domestic ground by a foreign power, this isn’t really the intended purpose of the military under our constitution.
We should not “defend” our “interests abroad.” We shouldn’t have interests abroad. That’s also one of the founding ideas of this country. “Defend our interest abroad” is an intentionally vague euphemism for “if we didn’t use a euphemism and just told you in plain words what we’re doing you wouldn’t like it because what we are doing is killing people to protect the profits of a very tiny number of people whose company would lose profit if we didn’t.” If that’s not what that euphemism means they wouldn’t need a euphemism.