Lies We Tell Ourselves

Seven of my soldiers are dead. Two committed suicide. Bombs got the others in Iraq and Afghanistan. One young man lost three limbs. Another is paralyzed. I entered West Point a couple of months before 9/11. Eight of my classmates died “over there.”

This is flabbergasting to me. Maybe I've lost touch with what's happening around the country at our schools. I know the pigs don't do this where I live. I've got kids and grandkids, I'd know about it.

Ten people were killed and dozens injured in an explosion on a subway train in St. Petersburg, Russia Monday. Russian officials are indicating it was a terrorist attack by a radical islam suicide bomber.

Glenn Greenwald of the Intercept has an article up, "Trump’s War on Terror Has Quickly Become as Barbaric and Savage as He Promised". He describes how Trump and his regime have ramped up the fifteen year war OF terror on planet Earth and how Trump told us he was going to do that all along.

"No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. " -James Madison

"Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other." -James Madison

"The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force." -Thomas Jefferson

"My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth." -George Washington

Lies beget more lies. A liar must create bigger lies in order to cover for previous lies.
The bigger the lies, the easier they are to spot.
Nowhere is this more true than when it comes to war.

""The first casualty when war comes is truth"
- Hiram W Johnson

As the nation looks back on that terrible day, we should spend some time looking back on what's been done and what we are doing in the 14 years that have followed. The act that started this war is no more important than the acts that have followed.

What does this say about us as a nation?

Do you know how many countries we are bombing? Go ahead. Try to guess how many.

You probably can't, and that is an incredibly awful thing about our country.
We've bombed brown-skinned people in seven different countries in the past few months and most Americans couldn't care less.