I keep looking at this picture of an Iraqi girl, wearing the blood of her parents who have been shot to death by US soldiers at a checkpoint... she's a girl like my daughter. I wonder where she is now. Who is taking care of her, can she go to school, is she even alive...
I read today that in addition to the Pentagon admission that United States Marines committed a massacre in Haditha there are now eyewitness accounts. United States Marines murdered at least five girls, ages one, three, five, ten and fourteen.
We aren't heroes. We aren't bringing Democracy. We - the United States of America and all of her citizens - are participants in murder. The men and women who brought us there by deceit are still in power, the companies who cheat our soldiers of proper armor and food are still profiting from the American blood spilled for no good reason - yes, they are dying for a futile cause. Our soldiers lives are being wasted, squandered on nothing, nothing at all... there is no good reason for them to be there.
It is criminal what our government is doing to our soldiers and the people of Iraq. Just criminal. Our government is manufacturing psychopaths with PTSD and pushing them to the front, to situations where massacres happen.
It is so angering, so depressing, so infuriating to read this news. You want to give up, you want to say the hell with humanity, you want to drink and make it all go away...
But there are other people out there who fill you with hope and renew your energy. For example, you should visit Peace Takes Courage and see what one fifteen year old girl has done.
Then you pick up and keep on keeping on. Because as stained as our beautiful United States is with war crimes and degraded by the criminals who govern, there is still a core of worth to our country that is not dead. We washed the stain of slavery from our country, we can again reclaim our former place as a leader of nations in civilization and humanity.
But Goddess, do we have work to do to achieve that...
1 comment:
It is one of those things that many will disagree on. I happen to believe that despite the bad things that happen, we are doing something positive over there. The lives these people had under Saddam Hussein was one of fear and brutality. Unfortunately, there are terroristst there who don't mind stirring up problems, blowing people up and NOT allowing us to help those who are grateful to have help.
You and I know nothing of this girl or her family. For all either of us know, they could have been terrorists and the poor baby is left without her parents. We will never know. Had they stopped and complied, they would likely still be alive today and that little girl wouldn't be so completely devastated.
I know men and women overseas and know they are NOT murderers. They believe they are helping these people and doing their best NOT to inflict harm on innocents.
I respect your opinion that we shouldn't be there. Honestly, I wish at this point that we simply left these people to suffer at the hands of the murderous dictator so OUR people wouldn't be in the middle of this and dying for others. But, we are there and I believe we need to continue working to help them gain peace and whatever God you believe in help us.
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