B 4 Peace - Yom Kippur - The day of atonement. I do believe we, the older generation have failed the young generation that has marched off to war. As a 56 year old veteran of the vietnam generation I find it beyond comprehension for any of us who remembers the insanity beyond words of that travesty, that anyone of us would condone this ongoing militarism. Militarism is destroying the United States, it is killing the future of this country, its is robbing the tomorrow of the next generation.
As General Eisenhower said,
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms in not spending money alone.
It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.
It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population.
It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals.
It is some 50 miles of concrete highway.
We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat.
We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.
This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking.
This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
Our 5 star general and he also made another wonderful point, we cannot dictate ideology to another.
But it is not about the grand old USA, these folks, these people who run the General Electrics, and all the other companies are holding the USA as hostages. With their henchmen in the heist, disguised as standard bearers for the flag, they are looting the future of America. The lobbyists are the inglorious pimps for these military corporations as they scream "Fear!" "Kill the terrorists!...and... By the way, also write us a check for a few billion dollars.
The US we guesstimate spends up to 25% of its GNP on combined military, homeland insecurity, NASA, Department of Energy, and a myriad of military appropriations that would take a team of Sherlock Holmes and Scotland Yard a century to uncover.
We start the B 4 Peace we hope that it will inspire others to call out the names of the young men and women killed in these wars. More importantly, every voice, no matter how small and apparently insignificant that speaks against war and for peace, every voice and person who is insistent that the future of the USA is not as a military empire. My vision of the USA is one where we can be both PRO-PEACE and PRO-AMERICA, and PRO-Life for the future of the planet.
It is long past time to invest in the USA, while China is having a grand time making incredible economic gains with a fraction of the money spent for their military, the US is spending itself into bankruptcy. Bring the soldiers home! Invest in a green peaceful USA! If we declare way on anything - Let us declare war on poverty! Let us say it is immoral for an US American not to have a home. Every child who can and is able to go to school or college can afford to.
It is time to really invest in the future of America. The one way to do this, is to be for PEACE. Join us in prayer, spirit, or your presence on September 18 at 12 noon
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