Boom Goes The War Machine
I live less than 30 miles from one of the largest Marine bases in the country. For the last week, they have been using mortars and heavy artillery on their base, and the sound echoes through our canyons and valleys—all night, sometimes all day as well. This week, they've switched to high explosive munitions.
Boom goes the war machine.
Heavily armed and armored police have descended on many anti-war protests at our colleges. These are people who want the eradication of the Palestinian people to stop. They are peace protestors—people who truly believe that two wrongs don't make a right, tired of funding the war machine, who actually pay attention and dig deep into these conflicts and know what's happening in Gaza is just genocide under a different name.
Boom goes the war machine.
Politicians, cops, sycophants—all are lying about who the protesters are, what they want, and what they're doing. The media has no courage anymore. They can only call them 'Pro-Palestinian Protestors.' Fuck. Call them what they are: Peace protestors. And the counter-protestors? They're not Pro-Israel counter-protestors; they're Pro-War counter-protestors.
Boom goes the war machine.
If we ever had any moral ground to stand on, it was all pissed away a long, long time ago. It can be debated as to when, but I really think it comes down to dropping the bomb. That decision came down to a desire to send Stalin a message by taking Japan before he could get there. The moment we chose to drop those bombs, we lost. We lost it all. If we ever had it in the first place. We could have learned from that experience and never again allowed civilian casualties to be an acceptable trade-off for defeating an enemy.
But we didn't.
Boom goes the war machine.
So now how can we ask Israel to do the right thing when we're so fucking incapable of doing the right thing ourselves? Time and again, conflict after conflict, small wars, big wars, wars for oil, and for land, and for retribution, all killing tens of thousands of regular people who had nothing to do with any of that. Over and over, the bloody red, white, and blue. Emphasis on the bloody.
Boom goes the war machine.
Of course, then, we'll now give away money and weapons to other countries massacring whole populations. Why not? If we don't defend the lie, we're going to have to answer a whole lot of questions.
Boom goes the war machine.
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