Sunday, March 14, 2010

War Heroes or Mass Murderers?

The Republican insistence of speaking of a 'war on terror' makes of said 'terrorists' heroes in their minds and those of their supporters. Wars are fought between nations -- not clusters of serial killers of innocent people -- many of these their own.

Words make a vast difference in characterizing facts. A check with those being slaughtered by the mass murderers reports widely that normal citizens of Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan and perhaps even Iran have had it with the killing games. Through the internet they can see how normal people live in democracies designed to represent the public interest -- no 'wars', medical care for all, and the other amenities that they expect and we Americans deserve.

The party of NO denies us all the best of things and does its best to sabotage reforms of our corrupted practices. What nation apart from a cruel dictatorship divides its super wealthy from the rest of us struggling to make it?

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"A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy cited by Machiavelli)
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Ed Kent [blind copies]

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