Jeroen Percival Jesus » irony

i would say ‘oh snap’ if it didn’t make me want to weep

admin — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:44:08 +0000

I would laugh if it wasn’t so sad and true:

The U.S. Army’s internal “debate” that NPR reports presents two competing philosophies. In old-fashioned, conventional war, the military conducts all-out conflict to destroy an enemy nation. To that end, it conducts airstrikes against population centers. In 21st-century counterinsurgencies, the military conducts wars of liberation to free oppressed people. To that end, it conducts airstrikes against population centers

From Slacktivist, a blog that I would recommend reading for the weekend deconstruction of the Left Behind books not to mention all the other awesome content.

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to look very, very stupid

jpj — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:00:18 +0000

Tongodeon points out the Air Force’s fetching new slogan:

Someone has clearly not been paying attention to history, even military history. That’s a direct translation of Germany’s Über Alles, which I’m not going to even provide a google link to because it leads to all sorts of racist retardness that might get people who read this at work in trouble. (Instead, please accept this link to The Dead Kennedy’s California Über Alles.)

The Nazis weren’t the original context of the quote, it’s from a poem in 1841 Germany, but you still have to wonder WTF the air force public affairs officers who came up with that were thinking.