In this case, evil is not meant in the sense of religious evil or theistic evil but in a humanitarian sense.\u00a0\u00a0 Religion and God(s) have always found a way to justify war.\u00a0 War is evil because it is not a zero sum game.\u00a0 Only those that have emotional distance from war can treat it like a zero sum game.\u00a0 Distance allows folks to fashion a marketing campaign to justify war.\u00a0 Death affords no distance.\u00a0 The life of the innocent child killed in war is never brought back to life.\u00a0 The family lives in the hollow catacombs of their child\u2019s death until they die.\u00a0 The tragedy can\u2019t be made right; it is absolutely irrecoverable and irrevocable.\u00a0 Women, children, the old, friendly fire, collateral damage is not a number that is offset by the `would have\u2019 number, the number that `would have\u2019 died without the war.\u00a0 There is no erasure of tragedy for those that have lost loved ones.\u00a0 There is only the empty void where a life used to be.\u00a0 There is no just war; only a necessary war.\u00a0 The marketing of a just war is a huge rationalization for evil.\u00a0 Only those devoid of the emotional impact of war can deem it glorious.\u00a0 The tragic loss of a loved one to war is organic.\u00a0 No amount of words can overcome the inert downward pull of that pit.\u00a0 Only ignorance and emotive indifference can once again renew the call to fight the glorious battle.\u00a0 Was Iraq and Afghanistan necessary?\u00a0 Was our country going to be over-thrown by these thugs?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Did we suffer tragic loss in 911?\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 Will our killing rampages in the world change our tragic loss?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 We tell ourselves by cleverly crafted tomes that we will prevent more loss of life by our action and thus, justify our wars.\u00a0 By killing others we create a `greater good\u2019.\u00a0 What is that `greater good\u2019 in the case of Iraq and Afghanistan?\u00a0 We have created many more enemies all over the world and given Al Qaeda a recruitment bonanza.\u00a0 Even our old friends have more ambivalent or even negative relations with us now.\u00a0 We killed more of our young people now than were killed in 911.\u00a0 We killed hundreds of thousands of non-enemy combatants (babies and kids to start with).\u00a0 All the discussion of a `just war\u2019 does not offset or equalize the tragic loss of one child.\u00a0 It only provides an easy escape for those that would perpetuate this tragic loss.\u00a0 If you perpetuate war you are as guilty as if you pulled the trigger on the baby.\u00a0 You can tell yourself otherwise but your justice rings hollow.\u00a0 In the ears of tragedy, your defiance to allow the full weight of your rationalization to indict your personal responsibility is absolutely detestable.\u00a0 Your good has become evil, a humanitarian evil.\u00a0 You have become part of the problem not the solution and the more you deny and justify, the more you create the problem once again.\u00a0 War is a black tar baby that every generation has resolved to leave behind only to re-entangle us again.\u00a0 We create a new generation of patriots and a new generation of patriot haters.\u00a0 Go ahead, hold your ears and scream of my evil intentions but evil begets evil and graves only cry for more graves.\u00a0 Until you live with the gravity of your ideas on a daily basis you have yet to live in the reality of tragedy.\u00a0 Don\u2019t tell those of us who live that on a daily basis that justice has anything to do with erasing our loss.\u00a0 Don\u2019t tell us your virtuous intentions give us emotional buoyancy or offset our organic reality.\u00a0 You only soil yourself in our view.\u00a0 Go ahead gather your warmonger friends and have your death parties all over the world but no one can silence the hellish voice that you perpetually resurrect in your violent zeal.\u00a0 Peace does not come from war, only death and tragedy.\u00a0 Perhaps evil is necessary in extreme times but no one should take any pride or glory in evil unless one is evil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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