Bill 'Moyers and Company': 6 September 2013

Full Show: What Are We Doing in Syria?

September 6, 2013 - With the probability of American intervention, Syria is everywhere in the news. On this week’s Moyers & Company, Phil Donahue, filling in for Bill Moyers, speaks with National Public Radio Middle East correspondent Deborah Amos and historian and Vietnam veteran Andrew Bacevich about the possible repercussions of our actions in the Middle East.

As he has done so often in recent years, Andrew Bacevich is asking the important questions about America’s role in the world and specifically why we should go into Syria. Is a military response justified and if we take action, where does it stop? A graduate of West Point and Vietnam veteran, he served for 23 years in the military before becoming a professor at Boston University. His new book, Breach of Trust, asks whether our reliance on a professional military rather than a citizen’s army has lured us into a morass of endless war — a trap that threatens not only our global reputation but democracy itself. read more w/transcript>>>

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The brother 'Nam vet should get the 'distinction' between chemical weapons use and all war ordinance, until the world outlaws war and makes it a crime! Whether for targeted action in Syria for the use of chemical weapons or not chemical weapons, and others, have been outlawed on the world stage in use in wars with America being a major force in the writing and implementation of the laws against, why it was pushed on lies by the bush regime to quickly abandon the main missions after 9/11, Afghanistan, and invade and destroy Iraq to end a threat to many past, and present in that administration, political power brokers, by taking out Saddam! He does get this:

"asks whether our reliance on a professional military rather than a citizen’s army has lured us into a morass of endless war"

and some more right on! And those obstructing but were all rubber stamping war costs for Afghan and Iraq, off the books, on the credit card, are still seeking to 'privatize' the VA for corporate profit as well, reason, he should know, that agency stays under funded even while we wage war and long occupations!!!

America's Free War's and No Sacrifice, of the present generations and passing costs onto the next while ignoring or giving lip service on the issues of the veterans' from, for Those Who've Served In, DeJa-Vu!!

How does a Country HONOR It's Fallen, by Their Own 'Sacrifice' in Taking Care of the Brothers and Sisters They Served With!!

The Whole Country Served, Not Just The Many Caring Groups, with handfuls of members and volunteers, who have to fight for funding when successful and not getting grants, Within!!

"If military action is worth our troops' blood, it should be worth our treasure, too" "not just in the abstract, but in the form of a specific ante by every American." -Andrew Rosenthal 10 Feb. 2013

RM: "We got a huge round of tax cuts in this country a few weeks before 9/11. Once 9/11 happened and we invaded Afghanistan, we kept the tax cuts anyway. How did we think we were going to pay for that war? Did we think it was free? Then, when we started a second simultaneous war in another country, we gave ourselves a second huge round of tax cuts. After that second war started. The wars, I guess, we thought would be free, don`t worry about it, civilians. Go about your business." 23 May 2013

"Why in 2009 were we still using paper?" VA Assistant Secretary Tommy Sowers "When we came in, there was no plan to change that; we've been operating on a six month wait for over a decade." 27 March 2013

WHY? GOOD QUESTION THOSE SERVED SHOULD ANSWER!

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." - Abraham Lincoln

Something never mentioned by those that did and those that fully supported the doing, The rubber stamping rapidly rising deficits started Before 9/11 and these wars and continued with right up to the collapsed economy!!

Deficits, especially huge, means the costs of wars and long term results from are passed on to later generations, present is all borrowed, DeJa-Vu all over again!!