Sometimes people have to say, "Hell no, I won't go!"
And that's what many of our men and women need to say about continued assignments to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Libya.
In my opinion as a mother and American citizen educated in American schools, the natural law supersedes national law.
Will this dairy land in the circular file of cyber-land?
The way I see things as a mother and former wife of men, some of age to serve and the other, one who did serve in Vietnam, is that our national policy is like a snowball rolling down a hill, picking up more and more of our best people along the way and dumping them in the Middle East.
What is sad is that some won't return alive. Some will come back with mental and physical injuries that will reverberate into the lives of their families and communities the rest of their lives. Some will kill and maim people in the country we occupy, whose families will also be devastated in the process. The snowball continues to grow. Families and communities react, and more terrorists are trained and sent to destroy more civilians at risk anywhere and everywhere around the globe.
Now is the time for some brave men and women to object to orders to deployment. I don't speak as a non-patriot, but as a patriot and a matriarch of a family who loves all people, enemies and neighbors, grandparents and grandchildren.
It is not the peasant or the hotel maid who barely scrapes by a living to feed her or his family. No it is the corporation leader and the politician controlled by such who send the peasant and hotel maid to fight their war.
Is this why we were created by a Higher Power who loves us all the same? Are we created to kill one another, especially those who are more like us than different?
As a society, now is the time to stop that snowball. One can't stop it, but many can, and the sooner we do so, the less damage will be done.
The time for passive resistance stares us in the face. This task truly is one for the brave and strong and lover of his and her country.