How does a couple with a 7 month old baby daughter decide

[Tsiyu]

64. We in the US appear not to have received the memo

There is a malignant, metastasizing, desolating WAR going on in the Middle East.

Syrians and other refugees aren't fleeing to Germany for Oktoberfest. They're doing the same thing you or I or anyone smart would do when war has come to their homes: grab their little ones by the hands and flee from bombed out homes and streets and gunfire and Daesh demons kidnapping and raping their daughters, wives and mothers - and recruiting their sons.

We are far removed in our relative safety, but elsewhere there are bombings and bloodcurdling screams.

We've left a lot of military hardware behind.in the Middle East and it's in bad hands. We've left even more sorrow behind.

Those Ba'athists of Saddam's are now Daesh, thanks to our invasion of Iraq and absolute mangling of its new government. People in the Middle East who have lost everything due to the constant tribal/Russian/US/ blah blah blah invasions are now Daesh, partially thanks to us. There is much simmering resentment, not for our freedoms, but for our blatant destruction of their towns and people. Right or wrong, Christian or Muslim or Atheist, conservative or liberal, no matter which side of the fence you're on, you have to face the facts and see that goddamned reality is goddamned reality.

Human grudges are strange things. I live in the South, where Yankees are still hated to this day. People don't like to lose or experience degradation from invaders. People in the Middle East who get the wars brought to their doorsteps want people in the US to understand what that's like. That's what this sort of terrorism represents: YOU WILL FEEL MY PAIN.

There have been some pretty severe losses recently on both sides. Daesh members may be panicking and feel the need to step up attacks. We're killing Daesh members, and these are actual humans that other people, as difficult as it may be to hear, love and care about very much.

All of it is wrong. All of the religious sorts--who are deluded into thinking their god is so petty and weak, He or She or IT needs them to kill innocent people to make the world better--are frantic, manic zealots who are blinded by their devotion to a cause that makes them special, set apart, destined for reward.

Humans love that carrot on a stick thing, that feeling of being on a crusade, a holy mission only they can accomplish. They love imagining their God hizzownself patting them on the head and telling them how good they are. They like feeling superior, and they take that to indicate they ARE superior.

Then they get guns and go kill for their sky daddy.

What does their child matter? Just like the Christian parents who spent hours in a church with other members pummeling their son to death, zealotry blinds its victims from experiencing love.

All they know is hatred for anything that isn't them, or their Allah, Yawai, God, what the fuck ever....


My random $.02 so I could put off washing dishes and raking leaves.

Have a great weekend DU