the grief of The Parents is why we need to keep The People alive
it's the same everywhere
studying the causes of war — "To us it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men kill and torture their brother, the very image of The God" (fortunately for them the Christians don't seem to mind its being incomprehensible, they shrug and say that's the way it is, oh well... next!
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reading War & Peace.the fact that The Pentagon takes orders from The White House means that at least on our end we are paying these people like the Maytag repairman if they do nothing but wait for Congress to declare war
so people argue that war is a push to give a soldier someone to kill
since that is what they are trained to do
the killee is not important
it is a career decision
and therein lies the problem because on both sides the killees are very very important to their loved ones, if fireman can wait for a fire, then soldiers can wait for a war and in the meantime, we can have them go on peace corp missions which are sadly underfunded and difficult to be enlisted into and we can go help those poor people who need so much so much so much more than more family members losing their entire lives because of someone elses career and we have the resources to do a great deal of good on that front and let's all brainstorm, what would make Christians stop hating Islam? Because whatever it is, it's the same thing that will make them stop hating us.
I am reminded of the family feud in Huckleberry Finn
