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What do I know?
In Afghanistan and Iraq and Syria the sound of bullets and bombs makes it impossible for the soft voice of justice to be heard. In each of these nations the nations of the world that call themselves democratic and civilised have, in an effort to reform these three troubled states, either directly invaded or encouraged dissent, which has made war, where there had been oppression, so that where once many where oppressed now all are oppressed by war.
These days were hear little of Libya, although it is a place of violence and bombs, but that is probably because no British soldiers have died there.
I, like many, thought that each of the campaigns that my country has undertaken in these three troubled nations was inadvisable and likely to be counterproductive. The medicine has simply made the patient much worse. We have built death, not in a personal way where each may use life to prepare for and justify death, but in an impersonal way, where death is a way of life.
I hold that we should not have sent troops or weapons or advisers to these places, about which we know little except what we perceive to be in our own self-interest, and even then, our perception is mistaken. That is what I believe, but what do I know?
Filed under: climate change Tagged: afghanistan, death, iraq, Libya, life, philosophy, syria, war 
2013-05-01 02:15:46
Source: http://robertkyriakides.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/what-do-i-know/
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