Comments on: UFC fight for the troops

By: sly_belgium

sly_belgium — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:23:00 +0000

Amazing night of fights, but tbh I like most my mates was totally flabbergasted by this event…why? Well we kind of totally take it for granted that soldier gets GOOD care.

I know that you guys don’t have any social security to speak off, but if you send people abroad into dangerous situations it’s your countries DUTY to take care of em….having to organise a charity event for something like this, I know I sound repitive, seems unreal to me, and most people in europe.

now I could continue to write a whole book on my views on society, our (lack of) civilasation, but I’ll save it for another time….as you’re coming across the pond more regularly with the UFC I’d like to renew the invitation I extended to you and Eddie Bravo to contact me when you guys are in europe if you want to get some top quality organic home grown :p

oh yea; totally unrelated, could you do a tour of europe together with Doug Stanhope, pretty please :p

By: airforcekj

airforcekj — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:01:50 +0000

Mr. Rogan,

I’m in the USAF stationed on a one year remote tour in Korea away from my family. One of things I look forward to is watching all the UFC shows we get to watch on the AFN. Thank you and all the UFC for everything you’ve done for all of the military. My wife and I are both in the military and have both been deployed overseas at seperate times in the past 8 years and it is very tough because we have two sons that are seven and two. I just wanted you to know how much it means to all of us when an organization like the UFC, who doesn’t need to help the military and chooses to anyway, puts on shows to help our wounded and fallen comrades. Thank you for everything. On a personal note. I love your commentary. I’s nice to hear it from someone who actually knows what they are talking about. Keep up the good work.

By: ErickCoughlin

ErickCoughlin — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 03:22:04 +0000

It’s too bad we went over in the first place, and that we’re still there. War is too dangerous to bring to someone’s country like that. I’m sure there’s a lot of grateful Iraqis who enjoy the new stuff they got since came over, but too many innocent people have died.

We could have sent a humanitarian force, protected by the army, that way we could give the people good hospitals and shit, without mistakenly shooting them, then drive them there ourselves, Nissar Sqaure, that’s the kind of shit war brings, completely unnecessary at this point.

Most of deaths come from IED’s, so why go on so many patrols, taking a defensive posture would save so many lives, innocent Iraqis and soldiers.

Sure some scumbags would still bomb the police, but much fewer are willing to bomb their own countryman than they are willing to bomb americans.

By: Robison100

Robison100 — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:39:22 +0000

Excellent write-up and post, Joe. You are right on-point about many things here. The comments from Butler are also more true than most people know or understand. I would highly recommend reading “The Creature from Jekyll Island” to get a great perspective on how old money interests play such an influential role in all wars. Great stuff.

By: itpdude

itpdude — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:50:05 +0000

Man, good points. I’ve been looking at the War as a Racket thing for a while now. The guy I voted for President in 00, guy named Harry Browne, was working on a book titled The War Racket when he died. Too many people take lightly the responsibility of war. I guess we didn’t learn from Viet Nam after all when we had our men return with their ailments and mental issues and we didn’t help them much either. If you’re going to put a dude through that hell, have the respect that if he survives hell that he will be well taken care of for the rest of his worldly days.

It’s insane, Joe. And man you put it down on your blog so well. Total Win, Joe.

By: Corax

Corax — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 07:54:05 +0000

the only place you can really find freedom is in international waters.

By: Skelleen

Skelleen — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:38:48 +0000

Just in case you missed it on the first go-round, I’ll re-post. I typed it in a Word Doc before posting. Anal, I guess.
My comments. Again.
I am extremely touched by the strong support you show the US troops in this blog. It’s always nice to see people trying to bring focus to the folks who risk so much, and particularly those who pay such a heavy price for the objectives of our nation’s leadership. You’re dead on about the camaraderie. I did seven years of active service, 9 months in Afghanistan and 12 months in Iraq, and remain a member of the Army National Guard. My current job is still in support of the US Army and, as my mother says, I never really left Iraq. I feel that as long as those guys are still there, I have to keep doing this. I think, however, that the big tragedy of the war is not only these dead and wounded, but also the characterization of the war by mass media as ONLY being about death and destruction, which seems to be the tone of your entry. Not every effort over there is about killing. In fact, much more of the soldier effort over there is rebuilding, teaching, providing supplies and medical aid, and all sorts of humanitarian efforts that get absolutely no recognition. We go over there and hand backpacks and books to kids at schools and see their smiling faces and think, “Wow. My being here may have just guaranteed that this kid gets to grow up with choices.” Or, specifically, when a girl not more than 16 years old in Kabul approached me one day and said, “Thank you. We lived in darkness for ten years, and now we are free,” I nearly dropped to my knees and broke down, because suddenly my being there had meaning. Regardless of what our leaders wish to accomplish, what we’re doing has other meaning in our lives and in the lives we touch than just fighting and winning a war. But to come home and experience the negativity toward our efforts over there and see the gross misrepresentation of what goes on from day to day is one of the most disheartening things to experience. I came home and couldn’t watch the news for nearly a year. I just felt it was so packed with lies. The Marine General you quote says some very poignant things, but I disagree somewhat with the generalization that all war is “racket” and should be defensive only. I don’t want war brought to our borders. I remember how I felt on September 12, 2001. I never want to see anything like that happen on this soil again. We ARE chimps. And if we think we’re so big and bad on this little island of ours that all the other chimps aren’t going to try to sink it out of jealousy or just plain meanness, that’s just ideological naiveté. He wrote that in 1933. I’ll give it to him that times were different then and we could be more regionally-sequestered from the rest of the globe. But much has happened since then that has globalized everything we do, as Tom Friedman points out in “The World is Flat.” We won’t survive if we ignore the rest of the world. Bin Laden attacked us multiple times in the years leading up to 2001. What if we had been a little more proactive? Okay, if we’re going down the “what if” lane, I think it’s time I stop. Thanks for what you do, Joe. I love your comedy and your blog is very thoughtful.