Reply #4: Hindsight is 20:20 [View All]

[undeterred]

We are raised believing that our leaders will make the right decisions for our country. That they will not send people into war without good reason. If people are fools for trusting their leaders, then perhaps we are all fools. I am a pacifist, but I cannot say there is never a time for war. However, it is hard to see justification for most of the wars the US has engaged in.

I cannot blame young men 18, 19, 20 years old for not knowing that our leaders are fools. Some people do not learn this in the course of a lifetime. Soldiers lose their lives as the price for learning this. I am sorry that young men, and now young women as well, are exploited this way. To most of our leaders, life is pretty damn cheap.

We need to elect leaders who believe that human rights apply to everyone, and that every human life is precious.