War Victims In AfghanistanTomorrow,Ash Wednesday, a few of us will start an hour of Praying and Fasting weekly. Our prayer and fast is a type of penance for the killing our country, we, support in Afghanistan. We will be fighting the war at home.
Today an article in Common Dreams said it very clearly: “The War is Killing Afghanistan’s Children. Enough!”. The war in Afghanistan will stop when the American people refuse to pay for the killing and refuse to kill or be killed in Afghanistan.
Military training, such as Marquette University, where we will be tomorrow teaches men and woman to ”put aside their morality” in order to kill without conscience. The military makes all Afghans the ‘enemy’ that will kill you if you do not first kill them.
Marquette University and all of us need to realize we are killing real people Afghans, Iraqi and Americans by our support of the war by our money or by our support of military training to “kill or be killed” at our schools.
Once the war becomes personal killing, not killing ‘terrorist’ but persons, even innocent children with names, the war will end. The other day the Joints Chiefs of Staff when talking about American hesitation to enact a ‘no fly zone’ in Libya, which would result in bombing Libya said “Violence begets Violence.” I say yes and to stop the war in Afghanistan we must nonviolently fight the “War at Home”.
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