What Would You Be Willing to Die For?

What Would You Be Willing to Die For?

What Would You Be Willing to Die For?

I'm not talking about the video game and popular movie glorifications showing high-tech, blood-splashed scenes without showing the real, horrible agony of prolonged suffering. I'm speaking to a generation that is only now beginning to see their friends and relatives returning home forever disfigured, mentally and emotionally scarred. Or, them returning home in a cold steel box never to again laugh or play those games with you.

You are now a generation with children of your own. Yes, I believe you would die defending your children from harm. But think about it seriously for a moment. Given that scenario, do you first picture actually putting your life on the line in a personal situation of self-defense, or do you see yourself being shipped off to some place that your government tells you to blindly believe may be an outside threat to our "national security" so you can attack and become a target of someone defending their own family in a very real, up front and personal kind of way? Once there, would you truly see yourself as the "good guy", liberating a people that obviously do not want you there; a people who see you as an invader?

Maybe you would if you bought into the thorough brainwashing of basic training that taught you to blindly follow orders and de-humanize what your government has decided are our enemies so you don't have to think of them as people. That has been an effective tactic all throughout mankind's history. It's enabled leaders to use soldiers as drones and pawns in their quests for power while they stay safely at home or up on the hill out of harm's way. Then they can look over the images of crumpled bodies on the smoking, bloody battlefields and declare themselves victorious in their game. They don't see you as individual people; they merely see you as tools while they smugly chant, "The ends justify the means. Collateral damage is part of war." They count and manipulate the numbers. They do not consider the everlasting horror that "cleansing" creates.

You live in an age of possibilities to discover what is really true. You grew up with computers and cell phones. You have instant communication. The internet and satellite television broadcasts enable you to view what past generations could not. It's up to you to investigate and refuse to wear the blinders that politicians keep trying to put on you with their short attention span sound bites and their "let's scare America" tactics. Governments and big corporations have always lied to the general population to achieve their objectives. But you have the means to filter out the truth and keep yourselves educated so you don't have to be the mindless sheep they laugh at behind closed doors while they line their pockets and give cursory lip-service to the widows and mothers.

War, very simply, is about power and greed. Very much like the playground bullies who push the weaker kids to one side while they claim their territory. Remember how you were told those bullies are really cowards deep down inside? It's like King of the Hill. Only, in war, people die. Lives are ruined. Countries are devastated. And for what? Conquest. Self-defense is understandable but the aggressive actions that cause people to need to defend themselves are not. Consider that your government has appointed itself the police of the world, invading and massacring wherever it pleases for veiled reasons that are no more substantial than mist.

America has become the ultimate Bully. Be ashamed. And very seriously ask yourself if it is worth dying, and murdering, for.

Janet Truesdell Burgar, 3/10/2008

Janet has a lifetime of experience with people and a background that includes long family involvement with the military. Her Flaming Daisies website is dedicated to education and enlightenment about Domestic Violence and Abuse. Her personal opinion page is http://www.flamingdaisies.com/nomuse.aspx

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