War: One teenager’s view
May 11th, 2008
I was sent this meditation on war by a young teenager:
War. We don’t really know what this means. Children hopped up on drugs fighting the country’s wars, people getting killed for others’ small gain. No, we don’t know of this but we do know that war occurs yet even though our country is in one at this very moment we don’t stray far from our regular lives. Others die as we relax in front of the television and others sacrifice their lives…but for what. They always say “we’re protecting our country;” the irony of this statement is from what. The battles being fought aren’t on our soil so we don’t really know what war is like. We can see it, hear about it, even get involved with stopping it but we will never know what war is like. Our war was a pointless war. We wanted oil and so we attacked innocent Iraq when our oil buddies in Saudi Arabia had most of the terrorists behind the 911 bombings, but who cares. So while people fight and get killed every day, we can’t only do anything but hope that this war we never knew ends.
Entry Filed under: Iraq, War and Peace
2 Comments Add your own
1. Herbert Gonzalez | May 12th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Very deep and moving bravo!
2. Mohsin bilal | July 23rd, 2008 at 8:37 am
war is not only a word which refers a man but also a society.we all know,man is a social animal and he gets his interests by legal and unlegal ways,so society acceps him and he do.
why people fight one and other the answer is simple,why we fight our desires/?we have no its alternative likewise wishes,s means war b/w our innerselves and our outerselves.
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