“President Obama took a very short break from bombing Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Palestine, Pakistan, Somalia to express his grief over the attacks in France, saying ‘This is an attack not just on Paris…this is an attack on all of humanity.'” ~ Ward Reilly

Let’s just put it this way: Imagine that you are a U.S. citizen trying to go about building a life of peace and success and happiness. Now imagine that Syria (or Iran, or Pakistan, or Afghanistan, or Yemen, or Somalia etc) has surrounded your country with hundreds of military bases and thousands of bombs and soldiers. Now imagine that Syria, who in this hypothetical is by far the most powerful military force on the planet, has decide to constantly patrol the skies over your home with drones. Now imagine that Syria has decided that they are justified in murdering anyone in your neighborhood who they have determined poses a potential threat to their world dominance in the future. And now imagine that your neighbor &/or a close friend &/or your own son or daughter or mother or father is killed in one of Syria’s “justified” and “reasonable” drone strikes.

How would you respond? What would you want to do as you stood over the mangled body of your dearest loved one(s) whose life had just been terminated by Syrian hellfire from above? I wonder: what would you do? Just as importantly, what would you WANT to do?

Violence is never justified, my Friends, AND YET for any of you to claim that ISIS fighters are “evil” when almost all of them have experienced this very same scenario is ignorance that borders on the absurd. Don’t be fooled by the propaganda of the “powers that be” … See through their lies and place the blame for terrorism exactly where it belongs — on the shoulder of the terrorists themselves, yes, AND equally on the shoulders of those who have purposefully driven them to become terrorists in the first place.

Violence only begets more violence & war only begets more war. This has always been the case, and this will always be the case. Until we have the courage to stand up to the ignorance and the immorality of our “leaders” who are perpetrating these heinous crimes of unjust vengeance and counterproductive chaos, we will ALL continue to suffer mightily.

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Obama’s Drone War — the facts:

Drone Strikes to date: over 420
Total murdered: over 4000
Civilians murdered: at least 1000 (figure probably much higher)
Children murdered: at least 300 (again, probably many more)
Civilians injured: at least 2000 (again again, probably many more)
Terrorists eliminated: possible 3000 (probably far fewer)
Terrorists created: at least 10,000 (probably far more)

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