Check this article out:
2,000 dead in Iraq a time for grief and realism
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2005-10-26-iraq-edit_x.htm
It's sad, isn't it? What have these fallen men & women been fighting for in Iraq? For democracy, justice & freedom, or so it has been said. So it is democratic to be sabotaged to death in a foreign land, it is fair to die/get maimed for dubious political reasons or it is very liberating to see another society enjoy the same kind of freedom one sees back on home soil. Absolute bollocks! I can never understand why young men & women die for reasons they may not even believe in.
Obviously the lessons from the Vietnam War are too distant to make any sense. Perhaps, the economic benefits from this current war in Iraq outweigh the benefits of Vietnam so that alone is reason enough to keep the war going.
I think the far bigger war is on home soil. Once the game is over on foreign soil, the boys & girls pack up & go home. But how will these families who suffered the losses ever be compensated? A promise of an oil well in the backyard? Statistics at the moment stand at 2,000 brave but unfortunate souls & the number is set to rise. So how? Give all these people oil wells?
I think about the cries of pain & anguish of families who lose their loved ones in this conflict. The anxiety each time they watch or read the news & the final dread when they see someone in military uniform arrive at their doorstep with the flag.
Is it really worth it or fair even, for so many young men & women, with bright futures ahead to risk life & limb at the call of conscription for the promise of the propagation of democracy, justice & freedom? I think not.
2 comments:
thanks woman, u made me think. obviously we are too sheltered in this tiny dot of an island on the map. guess the only thing that could work now is prayer. coz if He doesn't move, nothing we do can.
Hiaks, Woman. 'tis sad that each of these lives with souls are simply statistics now.
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