I'm tired of our wars, I was sickened by how easily we started them, and I'm infuriated by our continuation of them. We don't even have the courage to support them by actually paying for our mid-east adventures, good god no; let our children pay for it later.
We howl about our own security and then endanger millions around the globe by our incompetence. We allow ourselves to torture yet condemn others who do the same even though we often pay these regimes to do our dirty work for us.
Our actions have consequences
In Falluja general hospital, 15% of the 547 babies born in May had a chronic deformity, such as a neural tune defect – which affects the brain and lower limbs – cardiac, or skeletal abnormalities, or cancers.
We had no viable or legal reason to invade Iraq; yet here is another god-damned awful legacy we leave behind.
How will we be remembered?
As a bully, a torturer, or a bringer of great sadness to future Iraqi generations?
Does this make us safe?
Some argue that WikiLeaks has made us less safe, I would argue compared to our own actions it is but a mere drop in the ocean.
What makes us less safe is the belief we still have in that by going to war we will in the end be secure; this is utter and complete bullshit and can only lead to endless war.
Our actions in Afghanistan and Pakistan continue apace, the use of guided drones to commit sanitized murder in the eyes of millions is hurting any hope that we will one day not be hated.
Our justifications for our own barbarity ring hollow in all but the most patriotic of ears, it is long past time to end our senseless hostilities against all those we consider to be enemies.
Rather than leading by example we are now the school yard bully, our belief in our own exceptionalism is merely a self defeating delusion, we are in effect no better than those we call terrorists.
I was against both wars, and remain convinced that not only have they bankrupted us financially but also morally. The saber rattling still continues every time North Korea or Iran is mentioned, gearing up for future wars whilst still enmeshed in the past.
There must be a better way.