Norbert Haupt

I came across this article: Terrorism, A Matrix of Lies and Deceit. It made me think about what we’re doing as a nation and as a world. We have a “war on terror” that is obviously not working. Bush started it 15 years ago, and terrorism is worse now than ever before. Clearly, doing the same going forward isn’t going to produce better results.

Seriously, we need to stop the nonsense. We need to stop bombing people. If we just stopped and refused to send military units to other countries for a decade or two, the youth in those countries would not grow up hating us. We would not be killing their fathers and obliterating their cities and infrastructures. They could grow up doing their own things. Why would they bother inciting war and jihad? They’d be busy living and feeding their children. We’d be busy spending all that military money on infrastructure right here at home.

We’d all be busy living, not busy dying.

Granted, it would take some years before the effects would be visible. It would take real leadership and consistency. Our election cycle of four or eight years is not long enough to implement a sensible strategy against a violent world.

So on we go, shooting our way to the endless war.