I just returned from a workshop offered at one of our local hospitals and it was on the home-coming of our sons from Iraq and Afghanistan. As a therapist myself I could see the value of my work to be offered to our brothers and sons, our sisters and daughters as they return home. The speaker mainly spoke of men, but I have known a lady for year who spent 2 years in a prison cell in Iraq in first gulf war. Today people love speaking of PTSD and prescribing drugs. I did not see anything positive come out of this way except for the pharmaceutical industry dumping more drugs and making more profits. The health industry having some thing to do for a living and the cops having someone to arrest.
The middle east belongs to america only as far as oil is concerned. The U.S. does not truly have any interest in the affairs of the middle east except to keep the supply of its fossil fuel being perennial. There is untapped oil reserves in our backyards and there is visible seepage which I have witnessed less than 20 miles from my house. All that our presence in the middle east is doing is creating monsters out of our own children who get recruited as teenagers. It is also fueling the antagonistic attitude of the rest of the world towards american arrogance and claim to supremacy.
The liberal people and activists when they one step towards equality of gender and progress of the less fortunate, a war only gives the patriarchs more to put down the women, the weak and the liberalists. The educated and the intellectual elite finally leave the country and become part of the nations that decide war against war.
Mother Theresa said that she would never march against war but she would always march in favor of peace. When will America understand that?
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