Friday, March 19, 2010

When War is Unjust Should Soldiers Just Say No?

Wow! This is powerful stuff. I am still trying not to cry. These kids are going through what we went through in Viet Nam, only they don't call it a draft anymore, they call it "opportunity'. The opportunity to go to college if you kill your quota of people who may or may not have done you or your fellow soldiers or countrymen any harm. Some of the ones who have done you harm have done so because you were ih their country propping up a corrupt leader who abuses his position daily. Thus they feel like they are defending their children and wife.

War is a hellish thing. I have done that and never gotten over it.. It is particularly hellish when you find out that your leaders have been lying to you about the motivations for the war. Like WMD or the Pentagon Papers. Is it any wonder that veterans are committing suicide at such an astonishing rate? Please stop the war and bring out kids home. the next time we go to war, the people who make that decision should be required to send their children to fight alongside the poor and working class kids. Fair is fair.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost