Warmongers lack compassion
As a Vietnam Veteran, someone who actually killed and who was nearly killed by the foreign policies of previous administrations, I cannot help but express my feelings: War, the slaughterhouse agenda, is the result of incompetence and irresponsible leadership. It is not the work of intelligent, compassionate men, but the work of misguided minds who have painted themselves into a corner with no other way out but to walk through the blood they have applied behind themselves. They have reached a point where their own lack of personal inner harmony and peace, their own inability to see the consequences of their actions, is coming full circle. Now they stride forth with the bold conviction that there is no other way out of the mess they have made of their lives but to destroy the work of peaceful men, women and children, which they themselves are incapable of duplicating in their own useless lives.
These men like war. They like it because they have never really suffered the consequences of war. Or, if they did serve in a war, they luckily escaped the direct effects and now push and prod the young to take up the fight, as they themselves are safe from conscripted service because of age or infirmity. They may appear to be patriotic, but what really goes on inside their heads is more likely a careful calculation where they themselves will not have to put up or shut up.
This war will keep individuals at the highest state of worry over the lives of those we love or say we love. And although Americans have no mercy of warfare inside the continent, once it reaches our shores, it will force some to abandon cities. It will be the cause of a terrible mass exodus of humanity on a scale that will overcome the government’s ability to aid and assist. All because the nature of war, with its indefensible weaponry, will bring to America such chaos and confusion that our carefully constructed safety nets will be shot full of holes and only the strongest will be able to cling to the tattered remnants of dangling net as the weak and aged fall into the abyss.
An earthquake, a tornado or hurricane, the results are just as devastating as is war. We can no more control nature as we can the impulse of misguided world leaders who bring us to the brink of nuclear annihilation. We then must admit that we need only let go of the illusion that man controls things on this planet.
Letting go of one’s dear, precious ego illusions is a very important step to finding happiness and peace. “Let go” is a powerful idea. One which only the bravest and luckiest souls are able to discover and accept.
Out of the ashes of this world-wide conflagration, may this be seized as an opportunity to work for humanity’s noblest achievement, understanding the root psychological causes of war and how fear and suffering are used in order to motivate us to do the terrible things. Be a contented soul. That is the way to true friendship of humanity. That is the way of living life, what remains of it, as a true human being.
S. Raymond Pohaski
Uniontown