Post by Bret Walker on Sept 29, 2003 14:02:39 GMT -5
Today another soldier was killed in Iraq. That brings the death count since May (when the war was declared a victory by the US) up to 81. If we're not fighting a war anymore, then why are our soldiers still getting killed in combat? Iraq is quickly turning into a total fiasco and I hope that whomever supersedes Bush will have the common sense to pull our troops out. We shouldn't have been there in the first fucking place. But now that we've stuck our snoots in where they didn't belong, we're fighting a losing political and military battle.
I posted the following in the Philosophy forum:
Weapons are the tools of violence;
all decent men detest them.
Weapons are the tools of fear;
a decent man will avoid them
except in the direst necessity
and, if compelled, will use them
only with the utmost restraint.
Peace is his highest value.
If the peace has been shattered,
how can he be content?
His enemies are not demons,
but human beings like himself.
He doesn't wish them personal harm.
Nor does he rejoice in victory.
How could he rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
He enters a battle gravely,
with sorrow and with great compassion,
as if he were attending a funeral.
And it seemed especially poignant today in light of recent events. What do we tell the families of these soldiers? "Your son/daughter/mother/father/wife/husband died today because we're lingering in a country where, by rights, we should never have been in the first place, but now that we're there we can't pull out. Sorry." It just doesn't cut it.
I posted the following in the Philosophy forum:
Weapons are the tools of violence;
all decent men detest them.
Weapons are the tools of fear;
a decent man will avoid them
except in the direst necessity
and, if compelled, will use them
only with the utmost restraint.
Peace is his highest value.
If the peace has been shattered,
how can he be content?
His enemies are not demons,
but human beings like himself.
He doesn't wish them personal harm.
Nor does he rejoice in victory.
How could he rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
He enters a battle gravely,
with sorrow and with great compassion,
as if he were attending a funeral.
And it seemed especially poignant today in light of recent events. What do we tell the families of these soldiers? "Your son/daughter/mother/father/wife/husband died today because we're lingering in a country where, by rights, we should never have been in the first place, but now that we're there we can't pull out. Sorry." It just doesn't cut it.