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In reply to the discussion: This is a time of shame and sorrow. It is not a day for politics. [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)Also the point of this OP seems to be getting lost with peronality conflicts here at DU.
You may want to edit again, making sure that neither yours, nor Robb's, excerpts are the primary language in this OP. But a full transcript with a link for people to verify it and get this thread back to where it belongs,
The issue is the insanity in our society. I remember some years back being struck with horror by this contrast, but no more. It is the truth of so many human failures, that we have to address:
The three children on the left still have the breath of life, barely, but they are alive. The entity on the right was never alive.
What is important, America? Will you deny what you are, can you continue to turn your eyes away from the tools of death in which you feel so much pride?
This that you wrote:
'..today, we don't have to look so much to far-off lands for reports of civilian slaughter.'
You have nailed the problem we are suffering from. Desiring the power to intimidate others, does not support civil society and democracy. It utterly destroys it from top to bottom.
I feel we are being punished. Not by foreign enemies or a vengeful creator. We are being punished by simply being what we are.
It was inevitable that a nation that based its security on deadly force, would experience the same.
JHMO.