So, Margot Kidder is an idiot

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53. As someone who is avidly anti-war, the article , while possibly

"over the top" in calling the President a murderer??? I agree with the sentiment of her feelings regarding the 4th day at the DNC convention. It was overly "rah, rah" military. And it's coming from a "viewpoint" of a person who wasn't originally an American citizen.

I can imagine if you are a family in a drone bombing path, you would call Americans evil and our President a murderer. It has really bothered me how the Dem party has tried to grab the "moral authority" on military exceprionalism.

Big picture: if we had spent the money we have on the ME wars to build bridges in the ME and educational access (especially for girls and women), there would be less "fighters" blaming and wanting to kill western people. (When a mother is more educated, they are less likely to give blessing for their sons to fight). At the same time, we take on changing our power structure like we were working on going to the moon via renewable energies so that we were saving the planet and securing our energy needs, rather than rely on oil from incredibly unstable world regions.

It bothers me a great deal and makes me feel sick to see that sort of display of nationalism and military jingoism! Read the whole article. Maybe it's a bit over the top, but so isn't bombing innocent children just because they live in another country and have brown skin.