The slaughter continues

How long and how many lives before we realize that VIOLENCE DOESN'T WORK?! How many innocent Iraqi lives, how much blood running in the streets, spilled by American soldiers, before the American military machine is called off?

Is this how Vietnam began? Is this how protestors felt? If so, I can understand the rage and fury of those who saw through the tissue paper lies of the government and military. I feel useless, helpless, powerless. All words of victims and bystanders. I feel as if nothing I say or do matters now - all those lives lost. I feel that we're sliding down down down into an endless black hole of death, destruction, darkness, and chaos. Where no one is safe and where everyone grieves.

Can we still stop it? Can we stop the consequences set in motion by loosing the American war machine on a people with little to lose? At what cost our lesson - what cost to them and what cost to us? Dehumanizing each other, acting as if our actions affected none but ourselves and those we act upon.

From Pink Floyd's A Momentary Lapse of Reason:

The Dogs Of War

Dogs of war and men of hate
With no cause, we don't discriminate
Discovery is to be disowned
Our currency is flesh and bone

Hell opened up and put on sale
Gather round and haggle
For hard cash, we will lie and deceive
Even our masters don't know the webs we weave

One world, it's a battleground
One world and they smash it down
One world…one world

Invisible transfers, long distance calls
Hollow laughter in marble halls
Steps have been taken, a silent uproar
Has unleashed, the dogs of war

You can't stop what has begun
Signed, sealed, they deliver oblivion
We all have a dark side, to say the least
And dealing in death is the nature of the beast

One world, it's a battleground
One world and they smash it down
One world…one world

The Dogs of War don't negotiate
The Dogs of War won't capitulate
They will take and you will give
And you must die so that they may live

You can knock at any door
But wherever you go, you know they've been there before
Well winners can lose and things can get strained
But whatever you change, you know the dogs remain

One world, it's a battleground
One world and we're going to smash it down
One world…one world