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[Rafale]

39. Agreed--Nothing has changed :(

Our culture is perhaps obsessed with violence and its starts at the top. More than 20 percent of the population has not been alive a day that we were not at war. War is almost uninterrupted: World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the War on Drugs, the Global War on Terror, and many, many undeclared wars and military actions few of you know. We have the largest, most powerful military the world has ever seen and yet we continually fear attack. We sell more weapons to foreign lands than any other country on Earth, ever. At home, we advocate Old Testament eye-for-an-eye justice and hypocritically judge madmen, who chop off heads. A majority of Americans say they favor torture as a useful tool when proven that torture does not work. Fact is most Americans don’t respect human life and then we pretend to be shocked when a mentally ill child kills with a gun. We enjoy watching it; how else could a recent movie like Mad Max do well and make millions. We blame the gun, not the monster committing the act, perhaps because inside we know we are the monster. Perhaps there is hope. We don’t blame a martini when a drunk driver kills. We blame the driver and thank God because I enjoy a good martini. Cognitive dissonance is like a thief in the night, robbing people of right reason. I’m not quite sure where we are headed but when I heard the President speak yesterday I thought I watched a ship on a rough sea without a rudder. I am baffled by feigned abhorrence of violence while simultaneously prosecuting war on a global scale, involved in conflicts that are not vital to our survival as a nation. Even when generals, admirals, and the warrior class tell the country that the wars need to end, America continues to advocate continued war and for new wars. It’s disturbing. Does anyone ever stop to think about who were are, what we represent, and where we need to go during the next 100 years? Is 100 years of war is the answer? How truly lame, weak, and shortsighted. Anyway that’s just my two cents. Even though violent crime is on the decline, there will be another mentally ill person shooting up a gun-free venue (because no one will be returning fire there) and we will be fighting in a new foreign land before the year is done. I wish voters would wake up and look behind the bull in our media, the Congress, and the President. Yeah, "all along the watch tower" for sure.