The onward march to war across the Middle East continues to find momentum in the bipartisan mockery of a U.S. government and in the biblically archaic Israeli Knesset. The American and Israeli public have been "dumbed down." The seduction of war has taken a hold through the glorified excursions of U.S. soldiers in their daily and nightly "missions" into the sanctity of people's homes in Iraq and Afghanistan courtesy of Hollywood and the "Military Channel." We have been desensitized to the unknown and grotesquely large numbers of civilian casualties. We are in the process of getting desensitized to the numbers of U.S. casualties too. Why feel left out? After all, we have become accustomed to the daily killing of Palestinian children in their own homes and territory by the "most moral army in the world." They probably deserved it anyway because they live in the same neighborhoods as the "terrorists."
All eyes are on Iran now. Will Iran be the next excursion in the Israeli/Neo Con game of perpetual war? Only time will tell. Meanwhile, the drums of war are beating in Washington, His Mighty Highness, our Commander in Chief is singling Iran out in his State of the Union addresses, Iranian diplomats are being kidnapped, and every ill that has befallen the Middle East from Pakistan to Lebanon is the fault of Iran. So, what awaits the world beyond a possible war on Iran?
And another civilization may bite the dust and send humanity one step closer into another dark age. But that is part of the perpetual war scheme; the continuous threat provides for a permanent "state of war."
Marilyn
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