I used to wear an embroidered patch on my backpack that said: What if they gave a war, and nobody came? Right beside the one that said : War is unhealthy for children, and other living things. My anti-war stance is not new. It simply has a lot more ammunition now. Back in the 60s, most of us had very little awareness of how the oil industry, bankers and the military-industrial complex held wars for power and profit. We were against injustice and dying for nothing, thats all. We did not fully understand the massive benefits the establishment derived from drafting us to go to a country we had never seen to die. Now, we all know about Halliburton and Cheney and W and the oil barons and the Big Banks and the various blood suckers who drive war today. Back in the 60s, we of course realized that war was destructive - including Agent Orange and defoliating chemicals dumped on Vietnam - but now we know that war destroys and permanently pollutes on a massive scale - and how many billions it costs to rebuild, how many years it takes for a place to come back from destruction. Back in the 60s, we had not yet had the Oil Crisis, the lines at gas stations and talk of climate change. But we remember how Jimmy Carter was railroaded by the Texas Oil men, when he tried to warn us about our need to get off oil and change the way we power our country. It is not too late for those of us who are still alive to go back to our beginnings. What we have since learned should motivate us to take up our anti-war stance again. Two more generations have been thrown into the grinder of war, and we understand the personal price they pay. Now, the usual suspects are trying to rev things up even more, using all of the usual tactics. They even want to bring back the Cold War. Where are my Flower Children, now? You cannot all have gone to seed.
Posted on: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 19:07:34 +0000
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