War

Sometimes it is utterly mind boggling how human beings process information and come to certain conclusions. We get outraged when we think of past tragedies that have lost countless lives. We shake our heads and wonder what people were thinking when they allowed lives to be lost in completely moronic tirades such as the witch hunts or the utterly devastating tragedy of Jewish lives taken for no good reason. We waited too long to put a stop to these injustices, even one life lost would have been one too many. Yet we go to war, let the lives of our nations people, soldiers to be lost. We allow the bombing of other countries where not only soldiers lives which is bad all in itself but civilian lives, lives of people who did not choose to involve themselves in the war to be lost. These people who are someones mother or father, sister or brother, aunt or uncle, niece or nephew, grandmother or grandfather, cousin. Someones wife or husband, someones heart and soul to be lost, to be taken away forever and for what? What are we fighting for? Obviously the original reason about weapons of mass destruction was not true. Freedom from terrorism you say? How about we focus on making our nation safe in the possibility we have another terrorist threat as opposed to going on a killing spree where we take out the closest thing we can find. How about we focus on ourselves instead of in-debting out nation and its people for billions of dollars in which it does not have. How about we get our heads out of our asses, stop thinking we're so superior nothing can touch us and it will all magically fix itself and actually come up with a plan before we dig a pit so deep it's bottomless. Yet we stay in a war of our own making that drains us of our resources and costs us countless lives. I in all honesty ask what we are fighting for. What is this, an eye for an eye? But as we can't get quite close enough to the eye we make do with what we can get, perhaps a leg? One which most likely had nothing to do with the initial incident. Does this really make us any better than them? Instead of strengthning ourselves to make sure we are never again vulnerable enough so that lives are lost because of others unfortunate hate for this nation, we leave ourselves even more vulnerable while playing god with others lives.