Apathy Rampant or A Nation Full Of Hypocrites?
I want to think that I am a truth seeker with a strong foundation of morals that will not waiver. I know that of all the flawed people alive I am one of the weakest, the only righteousness I have is by association with an earthwalker who was perfect and invited me to share His name. Flawed as I am, at the end of the day I am truly a person who wants to know truth.
One of the biggest questions of all time would have to be, is truth relative or absolute? I say that I believe in absolute truth, but my daily living betrays my boast. I think that it is absolutely wrong to kill but how willing am I to create my own escape clauses? What if someone was about to compromise my wife and I had a clean shot at him? What if a family member was being kept alive by machines when I know it was not their wish? Is it ever ok to end a life?
So now I am naturally thinking about the war. Is it right, is it wrong, is it sometimes right? Again, here we have the messy issue of ending life. However, I have immediate family members in the service who are braver and stronger than me, who have been there, one has even volunteered for multiple trips overseas, and they believe in the good work that they are doing. For all the harm that war does, they are also liberating people who have been brutalized from one side by their own government and from the other side by cave dwelling bandits.
Don't these people deserve life and liberty? Or is that only for us over here in our coffee shops and theaters? Does it make war ok?
Does anybody even care anymore?
Sometimes I dont think so. I think we are all sitting around here playing at petty pathetic freakin politics while the rest of the world burns.
Over the past 2 years I have gotten so sick at hearing everybody and their mom talking about how completly stupid George Bush is. Everybody in the nation was outraged at his pointless war and we all wanted Change. Remember that? Change!
I had to go to the time clock at work and clock out because I needed time to just sit here and think about all of this, especially after reading what I just read in The Washington Post online.
The headline reads: Support Troops Swelling U.S. Force in Afghanistan Additional Deployments Not Announced and Rarely Noted
You can read it for yourself
HERE. Some of the more amazing things that stand out are as follows:
President Obama announced in March that he would be sending 21,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. But in an unannounced move, the White House has also authorized -- and the Pentagon is deploying -- at least 13,000 troops beyond
that number...
...The deployment of the support troops to Afghanistan brings the total increase approved by Obama to 34,000. The buildup has raised the number of U.S. troops deployed to the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan above the peak during the Iraq "surge" that President George W. Bush ordered...
...The deployment does not change the maximum number of service members expected to soon be in Afghanistan: 68,000, more than double the number there when Bush left office.
Remember when reactions to Bush ranged from snickers and jokes to outright vitriol? Remember the dancing in the streets when Obama won the White House? Remember the Change, the audacity of Hope, the Yes We Can? Remember the Nobel Peace Prize?
WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE NOW?! I feel like freakin screaming.
Is apathy running rampant?! Has the whole nation been had?! OR DOES ANYBODY EVEN CARE? Are we a nation full of hypocrites?! Where is the outrage now?
Where is the outrage now?
Please answer me, because I just have to know. And please do not come here with a bunch of "Obama is the antichrist" or "Bush is a stupid chimp in a suit".
I want to know mainly where is the outrage now? Secondary would be, is war sometimes right, always right, never right, etc. If it is right then why are we ready to burn down Bush's house with his family still inside? If it is wrong, no end is in sight, and troops numbers keep climbing, then why do we suddenly not care? And why are we all sitting around talking about what a great idea this Nobel Peace Prize is?
how cute is that pup?
