War is the Anti-christ
The Electronic Memorial Wall
A new war memorial is being built. It appears every evening at the end of the News Hour when the faces of those killed in Iraq are displayed in silence, for our private viewing, in the living rooms of our homes. The soldiers always seem so young, so full of idealism and hope for a better tomorrow. Why are they dying, I wonder, except to make the world a better place? Why did they chose, I wonder, to create that place behind the barrel of a gun, or the controls of an attack helicopter? The faces are of the young men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in the Coliseum of Armed Conflict, demonstrated daily in our electronic circus.
Is it unquestionable true, that in this millennium, after so many wars fought to end war, the best means we have devised to achieve peace in the world is to send young soldiers into combat? If it is not, what is the appropriate question? Is there an alternative to armed conflict in the affairs of the world?
The Vietnam memorial was built of the names of those who made the sacrifice with their lives that they should have made with their hearts and minds. I can only believe that in their hearts and minds they thought and felt that the killing would justify the ends. Too many idealistic brave souls paid with their lives, so that we could see the New World Order continue as the Old, in armed conflict. I read recently that in our Republic there are only 78 years of our history free of war, the most brutal and destructive being the war fought amongst ourselves.
The Iraq memorial is an electronic memorial built of the faces of the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice, a work updated daily, to de-construct the government of a foreign state. Of the 191 United Nations pledged to the principle that Diplomacy, Law and Reason are the best mechanisms we have to create a world in peace, we are the ones that chose to defend against foreign terror with pre-emptive war. US.
We are the ones that maintain the largest and most lethal arsenal in the world. US.
We shall honor the fallen with photos, at the end of the evening broadcast, to steel our resolve that armed conflict justifies the undoing of any evil we care to define, and that it will make us more secure to kill our enemy than to feed and educate them.
We are the worlds free people, who hold the torch of liberty at our shores. Be like us, we speak to the world, armed to the teeth, sword at our sides, ready to kill and be killed, in the name of our finest principles......
... as the light of the torch grows dim.
Bob