Reply #12: Beyond this

[quaker bill]

when one has done what one can for 25+ years and the country remains unpersuaded, what comes next?

I live simply, campaigned for Gore in FL, rallied support against the Bush wars (Junior and Senior), have done one thing after another for decades now. What pray tell comes next?

I do not hold the military at fault. We train and equip them for a task, and this task is violent and deadly. If they do not get the job done with the first shot, they will come back around for a second or third pass. It is not pretty on videotape. But I am sure that it is not pretty on tape 100 times a day in many places during "active combat operations". We can and should be appalled, but also realize that this is what we send the "blunt instrument" to do. They are not there to dispense justice, they are there to dispense force, and they are quite good at it.

If we do not like the way it feels, then perhaps we should not send them to do this work for us.