This war. Afghanistan, Iraq. Why are we there? We are there because we must be. We didn't have to be originally, but we are there now. A shame, this is. We are sending the best of us over to fight for the rights we have. The very right to read this, to write this. The war is good. The war is bad. The war is a machine, and is also a creature.
We are there because we must be. We went there on a hunch (stupid Bush). We ended up doing much more then searching for “weapons of mass destruction.” We overthrew a government. We are attempting to do much more then what we set out for. This war has become a kill-fest. I fail to be able to see it any other way. Men are killing each other. One group over extreme beliefs that are so far from logical, it's astounding. The other, what has become, in some weird twist, self-defense. This, is why the war is a creature.
The war is a bull. An aggressive, growing war. Eating and feasting upon every small problem. We have taken on the impossible challenge of eradicating the terrorist threats of Al-Qaeda and the PLF, or Palestine Liberation Front to name a few. The problem with this is these are extremists. They are in every sense of the word extreme. We are also trying to establish a new government, unsuccessfully. We are unable to put a man in power. The sole component of a government. We are mostly unsuccessful in training a police force and military. While this war is also a giant burden on the the perfectionists mind, it is also a burden on the tax payers wallets.
We are paying with our hard earned money to fight a supply our heroes, to keep them fed and as content as possible. For their care when they get injured in the line of duty. This is all fine, and highly recommended to donate, but after so long, we can't give any more. This war is beating a dead horse in the financial aspect. Taxes, upon taxes, upon taxes won't do any good if people can't pay those taxes. So we borrow money. This puts us in debt to other countries. This would be fine if we actually had money to pay those loans back. We have dug ourselves a hole that will take years, at least 2 presidents, and multiple terms to fix.
This makes it a machine. It won't stop. It can't stop. The cash, we can earn back. The soldiers, if looked at as just numbers, we can get back. We can never replace the people, the lost souls. This won't matter in the end. Al-Qaeda will be around as long as there are extremists. This war seems like one that will never end.
This war is good simply because a few of these things were a humanitarian effort. Freeing those being oppressed by a cruel dictatorship. We have helped people get on their feet. We have helped them understand that they can live a more free lifestyle, where they can say what they think, and they can think, what they wish. However, for every positive, there is a negative.
As well as building up, we have torn down. We have bombed cities, we have destroyed homes, we have killed innocents. This is just another casualty of war, you may say. I say otherwise. These casualties should not have happened. We shouldn't have had to rebuild homes. These replacements for the destroyed homes aren't that. They are not homes. They are buildings. These homes held people, they held families. Just like ours, and they were destroyed. Memories, emotional attachments, dreams, gone. Just destroyed with everything else.
This war, it must end, but it can't stop. It's a paradox. We have induced an infinite loop. We have done what we will as human beings. In that aspect, this war was unavoidable. It would have happened with some group, somewhere. We are bound to kill ourselves off. Why we must do it in such a fashion appalls and confounds me... This is the human curse.
