I am so filled with loathing right now that it makes me feel ill.

[Skidmore]

It feels like the world is crashing down around us and we have ugly neocons and warmongers on both sides of the aisle fanning the flames as they seek to scorch the earth, quite often in the name of deities and high principles. No one is talking; everyone is shouting--and no one is listening. People are dying needlessly, some in war, some from hunger, some from disease. And those who support this insanity will rabidly defend every missile--large and small--or excuse any atrocity--large or small. All the killing in the world will not fix past insults or bring back the dead. Nor will it create a path to peace. It will sow seeds of fear and revenge and hatred, which will grow on the fertile soil of discontent that has been turned. This conflagration is a crime against mankind and the earth. The contempt and loathing I feel right now for all who would sustain such suffering and pain frightens me. What right do any of them have to sow destruction?