What Used to be, Will Not be
Americans used to think we had a birthright to live in a Christian country. We read and knew the teachings of Jesus: love one another, do unto others what you want others to do to you. Love your enemies, do good to those who despise you, etc. At the same time, we accepted the use of force as a legitimate right to defend our life.
From legends, we imbibed the belief that chivalry was admirable as were duels or fights between men if they were done in an open way, with both parties using the same weapon., and there would be a countdown to equalize the contenders. Only a coward would assault someone without facing the same danger. But soon, the supposed equality of war changed with the initial use of gunpowder, when death could be delivered from a safe distance away from danger. The use of gunpowder and gunboat colonialism to dominate colonial populations was followed by the introduction of aviation to obliterate economic competition of nations, further heralded by the introduction of electronic miracles to militarily control all aspects of humanity, with or without the threat of violence and death.
Bullets led to cannons, which led to mobile mechanized deliveries of explosive destruction. Aircraft warfare led to missile defense systems to counteract intercontinental ballistics and satellite weaponry. All of which now depends on first strike capabilities and ultimate final retaliation, by which guilty competitors might escape the consequent come-uppance of misguided delusion.
Brave America now finds its sons and daughters cannot be conscripted without a promise for personal education after their agreed term of military service has been completed. Such contracted service requires the promise that superior training and weapon technology will be provided for the contracted participants, so they might be confident they will obtain the promised dividend. The failure of thousands, of those contracted, to achieve that dividend has caused the elite to doublethink their precarious wars of conquest and choose to believe in the advantage of unmanned remote-controlled missile drones to kill innocent women and children in Afghanistan.
The shock of reality is setting in to young citizens of the “sole super power” who now realize that “heroic American soldiers” haven’t been able to defeat Taliban men, who heroically continue to defend their turf, as they did to defeat the British before and the Soviets since then. After almost nine years of illegal war by a coalition of thousands of unwilling mercenaries, fitted with superior American armaments, it Is evident that the American “school boy dough-boys” know the war is illegal and evil and want no part of it.
Cowardly American presidents, vice presidents, generals and warmongering congressmen now urge Obama to continue the war of aerial cluster bombings and predator drones to fire explosive missiles to kill women and children. Cowardly computer freaks remotely fly and fire the drones while safely stationed at bases, thousands of miles away in America. Do we Americans believe that we can wave the stars and stripes and have people throughout the world admire our so-called ‘democracy for the few’?
Folks in America must wake up and realize the desolate hole that we are digging for ourselves by the illegal wars that are based on lies. If the military training of American boys and girls results in deluding them to believe that they are preserving democracy, freedom and our way of life, then the game is over for each and every one of us.
Millions of people throughout the world have learned that we cannot be trusted to teach them about truth, social justice, democracy and religion when we have violated the very commandments and principles that we claim to represent.
Ordinarily, many people are willing to forgive those who transgress the rights of others if the offenders are ignorant or stupid. But if the peoples of the world know that the leaders that rule America’s government, business, education, and religions can not claim to have been stupid or ignorant, then the peoples of the world, someday soon, will confront us for the crimes we have done alone or in collusion with other criminals against innocent tribes and nations.
Some folks think that Jesus and Daniel identified us in the US as the perpetrators of crimes in ‘the end times’ as spoken of in the scripture? The people of Nineveh saved their lives from destruction by seeking forgiveness in repentance, while dressed in sackcloth and ashes. Are Americans wise enough to stop the wars, shut down all US bases worldwide, bring home all the troops, offer what it takes to rebuild the people in the nations that we destroyed, and humbly promise and prove that we the people will change and rectify our sinful history against humanity, and never again follow the greed of the leaders that need conquest?
God help us to teach war no more!
- Will Mische
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