Reply #21: Friends don't let friends

[moodforaday]

go fight a war of aggression.

It must be said. I feel for the grief stricken woman, but where was she when that guy told her he was going to fight a war? Did she think it was a good thing, an honorable thing? Why do people always have to find out the hard way?

I'm not trying to be callous, I'm trying to be rational. 10 minutes of rational conversation should be enough to convince any rational human being that war is one thing they need to keep as far away from as possible, unless they're fighting enemies at their doorstep.

I wonder how much research people do before they join the military, before they decide to become gun fodder for the corrupt politicians and the corporations that all but own us. My feeling is - and maybe I'm wrong about this, but I can't help thinking - that they spend more time researching an mp3 player they're buying than they do figuring out what they're getting into by joining the military.

Wars will only be fought as long as there are people willing to do what that dead man did. I don't know whether we should actually honor the dead in this case. By honoring the dead we are perpetuating the lie that it is noble to go and die in a war, regardless of what the war is about. As long as that lie, that horrible meme is allowed to continue, the killing will not end.