the title of this diary is from a comment in a previous antiwar diary I wrote. I've written about 10 of them, then they disappeared, as usual, because I don't think people have cared much.
Maybe, finally, Americans are starting to care about this war. And they should; antiwar activists stopped the war in Vietnam, and they are probably our only hope for stopping the war in Afghanistan.
There's a diary on the rec list that talks about how terrible the war in Afghanistan is, and how sad it is that our soldiers are being killed. It doesn't really mention the Afghanis that are being killed, just like the people in Iraq who are being killed and have been killed by our war there are not really mentioned. That diary also does not mention the fact that we spent trillions, with an s, on our current wars.
War kills people; or hadn't you noticed? Or did you just notice now?
I find war disgusting; it's big profits for a few at the expense of the many, and it absolutely does not solve the social problems underlying the conflict.
This is not a GBCW diary; I have no intention of leaving. I will continue to be a gadfly, hopefully I will continue to be a maddening itch until finally everybody here decides that they have to do something about it.
I insist that everybody on this site learn about the Case-Church amendment. The Wikipedia article has been censored, and the words in bold below have been taken out; and that is because certain people don't want you to know who actually has the power in this country.
The Case-Church Amendment, passed by the U.S. Congress in response to the anti-war movement, prohibited direct U.S. military involvement without congressional authorization after August 15, 1973.
Here's more information from the Wikipedia article.
The Case-Church Amendment was legislation approved by the U.S. Congress in 1973 that prohibited further U.S. military activity in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. This ended direct U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War, although the U.S. continued to provide military equipment and economic support to the South Vietnamese government. It is named for its principal co-sponsors, Senators Clifford P. Case (R-NJ) and Frank Church (D-ID). The Amendment was defeated 48-42 in the U.S. Senate in August 1972, but revived after the 1972 election. It was reintroduced on January 26, 1973 and approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on May 13.[1] When it became apparent that the Amendment would pass, President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger lobbied frantically to have the deadline extended.
It's not the president; it's not the Senate; it's not the pundits and talking heads that have the power to stop the war.
It's us; you and me and people like us who can truly make ourselves heard, who can truly build the peace movement that we desperately need to turn our headlong rush into bankruptcy around now.
It's going to take work; the peace movement has been turned into a bunch of flower-toting weirdos by the press and the pundits, and it's going take a lot of work by all of us to turn that perception around.
Until we do, nothing's going to happen. The war is going to go on, because it's too profitable to stop.
Have a nice day, and if you actually are even slightly upset about all the death on all sides, and of the trillions wasted that could have been put to good use, look in the mirror. There is the only person who can stop the madness.