Brutality and Stupidity

“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Some Americans have an incredible ability to rationalize brutality, because they feel no sense of responsibility for the deaths of a million Iraqis. They’ve excused our leadership for causing the displacement of 2.7 million Iraqi civilians, in order to install a bogus democracy for the survivors.

They see nothing wrong with invading and occupying a country that was never a threat. They see nothing wrong with using our military to establish control over Iraqi oil reserves. They see nothing wrong with sending our young men and women to their deaths, and putting our country four trillion dollars, further in debt, because they ignore the devastation our country is perpetrating in their name.

With one exception, every Republican candidate running for president continues to support the Bush regime and a military industrial complex, which is blatantly violating the Geneva Convention prohibition against looting.

Apparently, congressional Republicans no longer remember that Eisenhower warned: “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”

The history of the human race demonstrates that a primary cause of death and destruction throughout the world has been perpetrated by people taking up arms in the name of God. Over the centuries the lessens taught by Jesus and Mohammad have been perverted beyond recognition. Today, the greatest perversion of these religions has been by the religious right’s willingness to accommodate the needs of neoconservatives in Washington D.C. Supporters of the invasion of Iraq have perverted their faith by conveniently ignoring the teachings of Jesus.