god says:

Gets stuff done. Too bad politicians get to choose the task.

tallwookie says:

#2 – dunno about that – no brains would have got the mouse no cheese

god says:

#4 – you poor ignorant git. Try reading English, next time. The joke about “criminal records” is from the Marine.

JPV says:

>>Matt Garrett
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>>Considering the marines have been protecting >>your unappreciated a$$e$ for nearly 250 years, >>I’d reconsider your comments and show a little >>respect.

Protecting my ass? What a poor ignorant brainwash fool you are. They aren’t protecting our asses, they are furthering American corporate interests… period.

Here’s one Marine’s views on the very subject…

Smedley Butler on Interventionism

— Excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC.

War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.

I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we’ll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.

I wouldn’t go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.

There isn’t a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its “finger men” to point out enemies, its “muscle men” to destroy enemies, its “brain men” to plan war preparations, and a “Big Boss” Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.

It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country’s most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.

I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.

Phillep says:

(?) The left half of the maze is isolated.

A quote from 1933. The US has undergone at least two social revolutions since then, and the military was rebuilt in WWII, collapsed after WWII, rebuilt for Korea, collapsed during Viet Nam, and has been rebuilt again.

Back before WWII, many of the recruits did not even know how to read and the sargeants had about a high school education level. Today, sargeants often have college degrees.

Joshua says:

And the left wonder’s why they can only win elections every 12 to 16 years. It takes that long for people to forget why they don’t vote the left for President.

Most people in this country are good people, who want to believe they and their government are essentially decent minded.
Shrillness by the far left or the far right is usually rejected for something closer to the middle.

I don’t give a rat’s ass about who made the most money off of our wars, but I do give a lot more thought to those that fought those wars, either under the all volunteer force or back in the day of the draft. For you who think it’s all monetary….you might want to ponder how the Nazi bankers or the Japanese bankers would have been as your masters if it weren’t for Marines and the rest of those poor misguided souls.

gumchewr says:

I interpret this as a graphic showing that no matter how puzzling a task may seem to some or how many solutions to a problem may be proposed, the Marines always take the simplest and most direct route to and for success. They do not deviate from the mission and are not confused by dead-end alternatives.

OmarTheAlien says:

As a former sailor I saw two faces of the Marines; one, as a pain in the ass gate guard (think drunken fleet sailor returning to his ship), or two, whilst operating in the “Brown Water Navy” in Vietnam, just feeling real glad these guys were on my side. I really, really got a big chuckle out of the pic.