Dark Syde: For the Soldiers Among Us

For the Soldiers Among Us

This post is dedicated to the soldiers among us, be you conservative or progressive, hawk or dove, boot or vet, young or old, male or female. You all deserve far more than you’re getting from this government. You don’t win wars by dying for your country. You wins war by making the other poor son-of-a-bitch die for his!”– Gen. George Patton.

And how do we make sure the other poor SoB dies for his country and not our men and women in uniform? How can the average nonmilitary Joe or Jane help? Well, Gather ye ’round my friends, and hear a dark tale which begins in the dark ages, told by me, your humble storyteller, DarkSyde. Sit with me in the ancient circle of our kind and hear ye, hear ye, about the warlords of olden days, the bloody battles won, our costly freedom secured. For the story of liberty’s greatest victories ever wrought echoing through the pages of history into the here and now, start long, long ago, in a land far, far, away and once upon a time …

My friend Dark Syde is one of the featured guest bloggers at dKos this year. This is an excellent post he wrote on military technology, for which a few Kossack commenters have already criticized him. I’m for ‘freedom of speech,’ for Danes, Kossacks, Americans, bloggers, Muslims, etc.. Check out Dark Syde’s fine article.