Soliders 08'

Wars of the past and the war today irritate me.  War has become the preoccupation for governments who perpetuate it, politicians who struggle to end it, and the soliders who go to battle - fighting for their own survival - as our sacrifice for the common good.  And in the end, wars are settled at a conference table.  Why doesn't the notion of having the conference first occure to people?

Soliders have settled into a cycle of battle without conquest, sacrifice without purpose, and loss without victory.  The position of the dead on the battlefield determine which government has control at the conference table.  These are the rules.  They've been the rules for centuries.

Soliders are seen as tools, to be trained, used and then discarded.  They are trained to kill without emotion.  Why?  Because emotion only clouds their judgement.  Soliders are used to control any situation presented, by any means necessary.  And when the war ends, we expect our returning soliders - the sons and daughters of this nation - to be the same people who left.  Most soliders will pretend to be, but their not.  They're emotionally damaged and the consequences of those surpressed emotions coming to the surface haven't been taken into consideration.  These soliders that are being set loose into our communities are ticking time bombs.

If life teaches us anything; it is that our choices follow us through the years, for good and bad.  It is the unexpected consequenses of those choices that can be most dangerous.