Today marks the sixth anniversary of the Iraq war, a day on which the U.S. abandoned
all reason and went to war to break Iraq as it was, and make it over into a western style Jeffersonian democracy. We now own it and are stuck with it. We now recognize our illusions and are groping to salvage a trace of positive outcome in a morass of conflicting interests among the Iraqui ethnicities.
We forgot the lessons of all wars. War STINKS. It makes heroes out of kids by tearing their bodies to shreds, and depriving them of their future, and the future they could give to their families, community, and nation. It turns them into legal killers and dulls their souls against the horrors around them so they are forever
scarred in body and mind. And for what? Are there any winners in war? Certainly not humankind, or the dead and maimed,the children deprived of fathers and mothers, parents deprived of a son or daughter, wives and husbands left bereaved and devastated. Yes, there are victors, but no winners. We honor the heroes, but the fact that we do so testifies to our failure of statecraft, and as "intelligent" creatures. Victory is never worth the noble lives it took to gain it!
And now, on to AFGHANISTAN where we once again
forget the lesson of war to our peril.
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