WCGreen
WCGreen's JournalHow cute....
We all thought that maybe this time, this president would be different.
Hope that this president would at least keep the interests of those who need it most and change that would at least take some measure of those who gain the most from this country to start to pay for what they keep...
Well, we can all gather, there truly is one continuum, one that we could stretch all the way back to those who came to this country. That continuum has, more and more, etched the reality that class mobility, once the American Dream, is a nothing more than myth.
Sisyphus comes to mind.
I have been at this game since I, a lad of 11, joined up with some Hippies to bring environmental issues to the good people of the Western suburbs of Cleveland.
When I was 13, I organized a five minute walk out from my Junior High to protest against the Vietnam War.
The more that things change, the more they stay the same...
I know that chemical and biological weapons are nasty and cruel...
But in the end, what shades of brutality crosses the line of "civil" warfare?
To tell the truth, there are probably ten's of thousands of civilians in the general area around Syria who have been brutalized beyond the bounds of civility via torture, confined to filth, missing limbs, mental shock and just life down to the most base level that none of us here in the US of A can even fathom.
So what's one more indignity to be suffered.
Believe me, I am not saying we should do nothing. But what? You know that we are going to end up killing more people who are not involved with the military or political leadership in Syria.
We all know that a lot of this months outrage is because Israel could someday be attacked with the gas or aerosol or the mustard gas and we can't have that happen.
So we bomb Syria after much deliberation. What will really change?
Meanwhile there is a whole continent full of cruelty that we have, for the most part, completely ignored. Think about it, if entertainers from the 70's hadn't made such a big dust-up over Apartheid, would that have changed?
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