Quoting:
“ My fellow Americans. Listen to me.
“ I'll explain it in a different way. There’s a reason we in the military act so harshly when people celebrate the deaths of innocent Americans. Forget the Constitution for a moment. Forget the laws. Let’s talk about values. American values.
“ We value life. Period. Just as much as others in the Middle East value death. And the reason this shakes us so deeply in uniform is because we have seen this behavior before.
“ Your War Department is run by GWOT veterans. We spent years in wars with no end, surrounded by populations that rejoiced at death. It wasn’t just insurgents. It was entire villages. Death was the goal. They butchered each other for sport, chopped each other into pieces, and then danced in the streets as if it were the 4th of July. That was alien to us. And many who witnessed it never made it home in spirit. Some took their own lives, unable to reconcile what they saw.
“ In those dark days overseas, we survived by escaping in our minds. Thinking of home: loved ones, clean streets, apple pie, Toby Keith on the 4th of July. A place where all was well and good under the sun. A place where life and love were worth not just dying for, but living for.
“ So when we come home and see celebrations of American death.... when children cheer the killing of a president, or when adults in uniform worship death as unhinged as the terrorists we fought.... it rips us apart. It throws us back into the world where everything was backwards. And in a fight-or-flight response, we set ourselves to defeat that thinking, because this is the only place we have left.
“ It makes no sense to us: why fight a war in lands where death reigned supreme, only to come home a few years later and see the same obsession with death happen here? Do you understand now? Do you see how horrifying this is?
“ This isn’t just about breaking the oath. It’s about breaking the very fabric of what we fought to preserve. This thinking is a cancer, and it must be cut out. For those still salvageable: find the light. Find God. Find anything that brings you back to sanity.
“ Because the alternative is the death of America’s soul, and no constitution can save a nation that no longer values life. ”
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Everything he's complaining about amounts to a regression from our high state of civilization, toward the backward and horrifying states of the former colonies. We are regressing to the worst common denominator of humanity, which is basically might-makes-right, naked pursuit of power just for its own sake. I-beat-you-up-so-I-get-your-lunch-money-tier thinking.