The world has gone stupid.

[jackshoegazer]

I was just reading this article...

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran has drawn up plans to bomb Israel if the Jewish state should attack, the deputy air force commander said Wednesday, adding to tensions already heated up by an Israeli airstrike on Syria and Western calls for more U.N. sanctions against Tehran.

And I wonder, besides the whole "War is wrong in any circumstance" view, why is this a bad thing? If some country said they were going to attack the U.S. wouldn't we say, "Hey, if you do that, we will retaliate."

Please, people, don't believe the war machine. We are being pushed toward war with Iran and that is unnecessary and completely stupid.  And Israel?  Seriously, dude, stop it.  Stop bombing your neighbors.  Seriously.

I'm thinking all aid we send to Israel (or any other country for that matter) should be on a sliding scale depending on how nice they were to other countries.  You bomb someone, you get nothing.

Comments

[schmecky.livejournal.com]

I don't talk about it often because I don't like the conversations it leads to, but I absolutely believe war is wrong no matter what. Killing people is wrong. Period. Even if they tried to kill you first. War is short-term thinking. In the long term, killing leads to more kiling, war begets war, end of story. The only way to achieve peace - in the long term - is to refuse to participate in violence.