During the Vietnam war we watched nightly news, as our boys caskets draped in the American flag were unloaded Nightly from cargo planes. It was a sad somber time as the reporter gave the number of casualties unloaded. We also had live coverage of the war, in Vietnam on the nightly news. This did bring some of the realities of war into our homes every night. Perhaps seeing a bit of the ugly reality of war led us to stop the killing.
We held peaceful protests to stop the killing of innocent people. We marched in the thousands. We helped put an end to that war. We thought we had put an end to ALL war. We thought people were now aware, so there will never be another useless war like Vietnam. We were wrong. The war mongers decided to never show our boys caskets being unloaded from cargo planes again. It was no longer allowed to film or broadcast. war reality on nightly news. America is good at selling war to our young men and women. So many wars have been sold to the American public since Vietnam. We thought we had put a stop to useless wars, created by the military industrial complex. But we had not. Propaganda is too powerful. Americans too stupid. 911 was created. Americans fell for the false flag. Thousands wanted to go kill the “terrorists “ in far away lands. Innocent boys, once again believing they were protecting their homeland from destruction by terrorists. Now signed up to fight in foreign lands they didn’t even know how to find on a globe.
During Vietnam, America used the excuse of fighting “ communism” to justify killing and bombing and stealing in That country. After communism fell America needed another enemy for an excuse to invade foreign lands. 911 created the perfect excuse to invade any country in the world to go after “terrorists”. 911 also created a police state in America to take our constitutional rights away. People do not want their tax money going to war. We need many things in our own country. Like decent schools and health care. Food for our children. A decent infrastructure. Our college graduates owe a trillion dollars in student loans. There are few jobs for our graduates beyond minimum wages. What if we pay the student debt off instead of dropping bombs? All our taxes go for destruction around planet earth. Those who are awake do not want this war based economy. We don’t want our boys sent to Afghanistan or Iraq to kill. America only creates more terrorists by their destruction and thieving ways invading other countries. Bring all our troops home. Mind our own business. Who appointed America as the police of the world anyhow? Protect our own borders and stay on our own continent. Put the trillions of war dollars into helping our own people have decent lives.