Greetings again...What are we to make of this saber-rattling? To me it is unbelievable that ANY folks would support this, applaud this, and even say this makes our nutjob "Presidential" ( I'm glad Rather and some others aren't going along.). If THAT'S their definition of "Presidential" we all need to say what a CROCK that is!
Shouldn't a President show leadership in seeking a BETTER world. So I ask, how does war advance that? Shouldn't a President show more thought and care in making decisions than impetuous missile strikes? So I ask, why wasn't this happening in this case? And and shouldn't a President show respect for our own Constitution and international law? So I unequivocally state: our nutjob-in-chief has not.
Glenn Greenwald tweeted: US goes to war so often & easily that a good number of Americans believe raining down Tomahawk missiles on a country doesn't count as "war" and
Cites Rep. Justin Amash tweet:
Airstrikes are an act of war. Atrocities in Syria cannot justify departure from Constitution, which vests in Congress power to commence war.
And it's not just the offhandedness of the strike authorization or the flaunting of the Constitution. We need to ask again and again, "War - What Is It Good For?" If you know the song, or if you know in your heart how bad war is, you know the answer!
"It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it." was said by, of all people, Robert E. Lee, whose first-hand experience in the horrors of our Civil War surely let him to that conclusion. With the even more devastating weapons we have now, we should take heed of this thought.
War is NOT something to be entered into so cavalierly as this administration has. It is very serious business, requiring cool thought and deliberation. Lives are at stake, not just those of active combatants but increasingly of civilians.
War in this technological age is NOT some video game or global virtual chess match. Real lives are still involved. We must insist that the media keep reporting this honestly and NOT just become echo chambers for the government.
So War - What Is It Good For ---- ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! And if you've read along with me, I think you deserve the song!
War - Edwin Starr
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Greetings. I'm not sure exactly what to say, but I'm just too emotional and heartsick not to write something.
I want to scream at people - look at the harm that's being done! I just cannot see how ANYONE of ANY sort of good will could be party to the mess that we're in. And it's a huge one - that even a certain nutjob's supporters should have seen coming. Our very democracy is under severe attack, there are missile strikes, civil liberties continue to be attacked, and we haven't even touched on climate concerns yet.
I was half expecting bad news about the nefarious SCOTUS nominee - and yes, it was bad. Commondreams.org listed the 4 Dem. Senate collaborators in voting for cloture, and I posted a link to that article in my twitter feed. The GOP keeps showing us that they have no thought or care for anything but their own power. Is there any line they won't cross?
But I was NOT prepared for the horrible news of the missile strikes on Syria. This is wading in to very deep, dangerous territory ---- and it ignores our Constitution and international law. Trevor Timm in his twitter feed (he's @trevortimm ) tweeted a video where Brian Williams called these strikes "beautiful" numerous times. I'm sorry, but destruction and loss of life are certainly not MY idea of beauty. Timm also has several tweets which show the msm for the most part has failed to be even a bit critical and just be submissive in reporting this. Sounds a lot like Orwell, doesn't it: "War is Peace." My mind and spirit are so troubled by this development and I can't help but also wonderalong with Peter Van Buren (see his tweet in the commondreams article in link above) "No one knows where this ends."
That's certainly bad enough. And there's more. The gov't wants to unmask an anonymous "rogue" twitter account user who has been critical of the admin.. And get this, according to an ACLU spokesperson, "on the face of the summons the government has offered no reason for seeking this information." As a new twitter user, of course I'm concerned; and everyone else should be as well. Free Speech needs to apply to ALL! I'm glad that twitter is filing suit and that the ACLU is defending the user.
I know there's quite a resistance around, but is there hope for getting us out of this mess? The stakes are too high and I'm concerned as I've never been. The dangers are real, folks. I'm not sure about answers, but I AM doing a LOT of praying.
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