I understand this rant, and I don’t think it is necessary right now. Anything that ends up being polarizing is just not that useful. I agree that McCain is a war criminal, but he is also a war victim. It is certainly better to wage war with words, but maybe we can find a way not to wage war at all.
It is really hard for those who have fought in or lost to war to reconcile what a misguided thing it was to do in the first place. It is horribly painful and if there isn’t some understanding of how people have been manipulated from birth to believe that war is necessary then those same people will continue to defend their position. We can’t end war without compassion.
The concept of war hero irks me too since the real heroes are the ones who refuse to fight, but I also have compassion for those who never had the right information to make the right choice. If a person is brainwashed, then their conscience is misguided, and that requires quite a lot of healing. Wishing them dead is not in the spirit that I would like to promote, even if I’m not that upset by their impending death.
I really respect your writing and would like to share your posts but this sort of thing makes it a lot harder to promote you. I would like to see you saying the same thing with more compassion, because the rightness of your message is getting lost here.