As fireworks light the sky’s of Milwaukee tonight at the lake front news comes today the present US administration is flying hundreds of bombing raids over Libya. The vote of liberal and conservative congresspersons not to limit war funds for Libya looms big as more die in Libya and more enemies of the USA are created. Now word comes tonight that the US is using drone attacks, in Somalia. When will ever learn that war breeds more war and the cost in lives and dollars is a “crime against humanity.”
In the meanwhile my friend, Frank, says good bye to his son who is off to war. (See Father at War. As more men and women go to war and we spend more and more on war the more war(s) there are. The cost of war is trillions of dollars and more significantly hundreds of thousands of deaths. With the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya and US drone attacks in Yemen and Somalia how many more men, women and children must die before we say No More Money for War and No More Teaching War.
On the fourth of July, tomorrow, we celebrate the Declaration of Independence, the declaration of war against Briton, now our closest ally in declaring more wars.
The sense of death that I started to feel a few months after the death of my son last summer makes me want to cry when I see so much violence in the world. Yet I cannot cry about my son or this violence. For if I started to cry there would be so much that I could not stop.
My only hope is that our struggle of nonviolent love, bearing suffering and death will make a difference one day. We must keep on trying even when it means crying and dying. What else can we do?
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