October 7, 2019 will mark the 18th year anniversary of our war in Afghanistan. Despite almost never hearing about it from mainstream media sources, we are, in fact, still at war with Afghanistan. The longest running war in our history and people are still dying in combat there to include young Americans.
As of 2017 the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had cost this country 2.4 trillion dollars. A figure made worse by the interest we pay on the borrowed funds used to pay for these wars we otherwise could not afford. Imagine charging interest on monies used to kill. War on credit, makes my capitalist heart swell with pride.
As of 2018, 2,372 military men and women had died in Afghanistan, 1,856 the result of hostile action. An additional 20,320 had been wounded in action. And lets not forget the uncounted emotionally wounded that are now killing themselves once home. Enduring 3,4,5 tours of duty, in part so the military may avoid an unpopular draft, many return emotionally crippled, resulting in 20 veterans a day committing suicide in this country according to U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. 7300 deaths a year, year after year.
And for what?
$2.4 trillion can explain almost any human behavior - to include war. Is THAT why we are still there? Does anyone even care?
I do. I care. This has to stop. The cancer that is the military/congressional/industrial perpetual war machine that murders our young in thinly veiled hegemonistic agendas, in order to consolidate power and make money, needs to be cut out of our society. Its tentacles, having spread out into nearly every community in this country, need excising, with wide margins, and what’s left, irradiated to extinction. Then the entire business needs rebuilding - this time as it was intended to be - as a force to defend - not as a vehicle for profit, corruption, failed diplomatic aggression, and colonialism.
18 years people. The longest most soulless war we’ve ever fought. I beg of you to care. We share a small fragile planet floating in an unbelievably hostile vacuum amidst forces that could crush us all in an instant - we simply must care. We must adopt a worldview and realize narrow nationalistic thinking and greed will not sustain us in the long run. We are one family of life against immense odds, and we are not to survive if we don't fundamentally change.
Care people, or we perish.
As of 2017 the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had cost this country 2.4 trillion dollars. A figure made worse by the interest we pay on the borrowed funds used to pay for these wars we otherwise could not afford. Imagine charging interest on monies used to kill. War on credit, makes my capitalist heart swell with pride.
As of 2018, 2,372 military men and women had died in Afghanistan, 1,856 the result of hostile action. An additional 20,320 had been wounded in action. And lets not forget the uncounted emotionally wounded that are now killing themselves once home. Enduring 3,4,5 tours of duty, in part so the military may avoid an unpopular draft, many return emotionally crippled, resulting in 20 veterans a day committing suicide in this country according to U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. 7300 deaths a year, year after year.
And for what?
$2.4 trillion can explain almost any human behavior - to include war. Is THAT why we are still there? Does anyone even care?
I do. I care. This has to stop. The cancer that is the military/congressional/industrial perpetual war machine that murders our young in thinly veiled hegemonistic agendas, in order to consolidate power and make money, needs to be cut out of our society. Its tentacles, having spread out into nearly every community in this country, need excising, with wide margins, and what’s left, irradiated to extinction. Then the entire business needs rebuilding - this time as it was intended to be - as a force to defend - not as a vehicle for profit, corruption, failed diplomatic aggression, and colonialism.
18 years people. The longest most soulless war we’ve ever fought. I beg of you to care. We share a small fragile planet floating in an unbelievably hostile vacuum amidst forces that could crush us all in an instant - we simply must care. We must adopt a worldview and realize narrow nationalistic thinking and greed will not sustain us in the long run. We are one family of life against immense odds, and we are not to survive if we don't fundamentally change.
Care people, or we perish.
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