war is a joke without humor … (10/17/11)
In case you might have forgotten, we are still at war in Afghanistan — a war that is patently unjust & completely ineffective.
If we are going to protest powerfully, our energies need to have an acute focus,
& I suggest we start by demanding that our leaders withdraw ALL American troops from Afghanistan — immediately!
“For war, when we confront it truthfully, exposes the darkness within all …of us.
This darkness shatters the illusions many of us hold not only about the human race but about ourselves.
Few of us confront our own capacity for evil, but this is especially true in wartime.” ~ Chris Hedges (2003)
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“In war, God is on neither side … In peace He is on both sides.” ~ Steve Consilvio
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“Suppose the world were only one of God’s jokes,
would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?” ~ George Bernard Shaw
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