the drums are beating again. it agonizes me to here them, a pounding in my head. soon the saber rattling
will begin, a shaking of my nerves. once more our country is pushing
towards war. why? we are told, as we are always told, that war is for a
good reason but is it? ...is it ever good to go to war.
they told us once that like dominoes,
if we don't fight this war here and now, bad people would take over the
world. another time we were told that bad people had invaded a little country
and now innocent people, many of them children were being killed. we
had to fight a war for their well being. another time a man, a bad man,
was causing harm around the world from his fortress built inside a cave. only invade a country
and begin a war would bring that man to justice. more recently they
told us a bad man had gathered dangerous weapons. we had to start a war
with him to prevent his from using those weapon. in summation these
stories sound funny but at the time the treats seemed real. in truth
each has been proven to be a half truths at best but for the most part a blatant lie.
now we are being told that syria, a member of the axis of evil, is using chemical weapons on it's rebellious
people. our government is telling us we must supply arms to
this civil war so the rebels can fight back. once our supplies flow in
it becomes only a matter of time that we send more support. Meanwhile,
our claims of the use of illegal weapons is being doubted. in the past i'd shake my fist and proclaim "how dare they doubt
the USofA we're here to make the world a better place." a beckon on a
hill, a guiding light of democracy the ideals of our founding fathers.
