Christian Democrats in the United States
Global Issues - AfghanistanWas the U.S. invasion necessary, if any wars are ever necessary? Maybe NATO should have invaded in 1998, after the theo-fascist Taliban started locking up their women, beheading nonconformists and destroying religious art. Those are more honorable intentions than private profit on the "silk pipeline" from Saudi Arabia to China. J did say some wars (and rumors of wars) were necessary, they were the "birth pains." Was this one? Forgiveness is a more difficult struggle than a terrorist jihad or a military occupation, but meanwhile, killing just keeps on killing.
The People won't take getting their buildings smashed. But the FBI strongly suspects a trusted U.S. military scientist of prodding the People's fear after 9/11. If you think the U.S. was tricked into Afghanistan on 9/11, well, then we're really in trouble. We respect the right of free thinkers to consider that possibility. Consider which major powers in the region benefit from the stabilization of this central asian trade, transportation and energy transmission nexus. The question is, why are we paying for it? Or rather, why are we borrowing for it?
The truth will set us all free. All people must be free to share their view of the truth for the truth to become known. Afghanistan was not free. It was a prisoner of many foreign interests using their peoples' pursuit of God to turn them into soldiers for life. The late twentieth century war (world war 3) was not cold. Was a hot war in Afghanistan, Vietnam and everyone else a necessary evil? Look within the heart and find that no evil is necessary. Love is all you need.
Subscribe to Posts [Atom]this cannot go on
Initial BBC reportPentagon disputes casualties
Pentagon's second investigation - may have been a lot of casualties
We simply cannot go on doing this. What happened? Did the Afghan general not care about civilian casualties? Did he want to make us look like the enemy by directing us to kill his own people without regard for their lives? Did the U.S. forces blindly follow his requests without analyzing the situation? Why would we drop a bomb on civilian houses on a suspicion of someone meeting there, without confirmation, without a direct threat to anyone? Why would anyone do this?
What do any of these questions matter to the people who have just lost their families?
The Pentagon and NATO dispute the reports from the ground, saying only 5 civilians were killed. Maybe that is so, but whether it was 5 or 60 or 3000, does that matter? If the so-called "religious right" says that there is no "moral relativism," then how can anyone claim that 5 innocent deaths are better than 60? You can't have it both ways.
American people cannot any longer bury their head in the sands or wave their hands and claim that "war is hell" or "accidents happen." We are a democracy. We are responsible. If necessary we must rise up and take control of our own government from the hands of the weapons dealers and the snakes who play both sides. But violence will only lead to violence. Violence is futile, but resistance is not. If we all refuse to pay our taxes, what are they going to do? If we all refuse to go to work, what would they do? If we all join hands, march in front of the tanks and our deceived brothers pointing guns at us, and walk into the White House, they can do nothing. We must do this. Some may fall before the guns and tanks of our own countrymen.
The naysayers and deluded servants of the death machine will respond, "give to Caesar that which is Caesar's", or "slaves, obey your masters," that Christians should not be political. But this is not Caesar's Rome, and George Bush is not Caesar or king. This is our country. We are not slaves. We are free people. That is the meaning of Christian Democracy. This is a free country and it belongs to everyone who participates in the spirit of that freedom.
I do not see how, after so many incidents like this, that the people who lost their children and families can see us as any better than the 9/11 terrorists or the Soviets. This must end. If we do not turn 180 degrees around from this path, all the people whose children we have bombed will one day learn how to make nuclear weapons and they'll bomb the hell out of us just for spite. Doesn't that make any sense to anyone?
Am I alone in my horror and revulsion at the war crimes of our President? He is the Commander in Chief. He is responsible. He's got to man up and take responsibility with more than empty words at press releases. He's got to say NO to the puppeteers pulling his strings and do the right thing. Let the cat out of the bag, the genie out of the bottle, and tell the American people the truth about 9/11 and the war!
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