War Kills

War Kills

Points to ponder: War kills. There are other ways. War is not a game, not a valid means for persuasion, it instantly terminates any form of democratic dialog. War is a civil-rights bypass. War becomes more important than the U.S. Constitution, it is an emotional substitute for reason and logic. War kills.

Forget about abortion, that’s peanuts; forget capital punishment, that only applies to a handful of people; forget euthanasia, that’s just a pittance. If you really want to get rid of people, go to war. That is the greatest act of abortion, capital punishment and euthanasia ever to stalk the earth. Why are so many of the people who call for war, also against abortion? War kills.

War kills. There are other ways. The Vietnam war killed 5 million Vietnamese, we and the French did that. Korea killed 3 million, World War II killed 64 million people and W.W.I maybe as many as 80 million. Of this 152 million people killed in these 4 wars, perhaps only a few thousand were actually guilty of any significant crime, the other 152 million were innocent people. War kills.

There are better ways. The people who suffer most from war are children. Many are killed outright, many die from untreated disease, many die from hunger. Who knows how many are just scared to death. Many just disappear. The people who benefit most from war are the great emperors, the great kings, the great princes, the great Captains of Commerce. War kills.

There are better ways. War doesn’t work. It IS effective, productive, efficient, and “glorious!” But it doesn’t work. If it could work, it would have worked by now. It is not as if we just trifled with it, we gave it all we could. We gave it our best shot. We gave war our best effort, our greatest treasure, our precious young men and women. We did it again and again and again. We all won and we all lost. One battle killed 80,000 people back in W.W.I. Did it make a difference? Eighty years later? I don’t know, I can’t even remember the name of the battle. Hiroshima killed 100,000 in one instant, one flash. It ended a war that was already over. We could have conducted dialogue and ended it in a longer term. War kills.

We sent 150,000 men and women into “harm’s way” in Iraq. They are not well paid, most of them are paid a pittance in today’s realities. But they are well trained and well supplied. They will win. But. What if we prepared 150,000 people trained in meditation. They would be sent somewhere, maybe; perhaps stay at home, but they would be paid, they would be prepared and provided what they might need for the next six months to a year. And they would meditate - 12 to 18 hours a day. Like combat. What would that do to the world?

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