A picture can be worth a thousand words… but you’ll never see them

If anything is true about how Americans receive our news, it’s that the news we see is generically pretty, even in war. How different it would be if Americans were allowed to be exposed to the real picture of war. Of course, these very real, gruesome, and disturbing images of man’s results in humanity for men, women, and children are not available to the average American, and certainly not at dinner time. We like our wars, and our friends’ wars, clean and something we may be vaguely aware of but don’t really have to deal with since we have to get to the mall before they close.

The government certainly doesn’t want to show photos of screaming parents holding pieces of their former children or family members. Who wants to see the charred bodies of truckers caught in a bomb run or grandpa buried with only his hands sticking out of the rubble? The Americans are not, and the government would rather have you believe that somehow these people are used to being shot, bombed, blown up, and killed badly. Since we are not used to this, we better not show it to ourselves.
I think the government also learned a lesson from Vietnam. Of course it was not what we would have wanted, but one thing is for sure. ..Never, ever show the American people what invasions, war, bombs, fire, rocket and mortar attacks can do to humans. Never show them what you do to children. And never let you have weapons that make your blood boil… literally, if you choose. Once Americans began to see their tax dollars at stake in the war, they wanted no more war. That is a lesson learned from Vietnam. The other lessons were long forgotten.

It is interesting to me how men who have never been to war are the most mouth-mouthing about why war should be inflicted on this or that imaginary enemy. Those who have gone to war are often sidelined when those who never had to go skipped the war or were given safe places to wait for them to start a war. We may have a “war president,” but we don’t have one who has seen a war. Causing them, encouraging them, provoking them, threatening them, is NOT the same as SEEING them. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but I have a feeling that some in high places derive some kind of enjoyment from having the power of life and death over helpless souls. Maybe it’s just me, but it seems so. Mocking those one has turned down for execution seems to lend itself to that sentiment.

Talking heads on the radio who have never been to war and would not obey an order given if their life depended on it because no one tells their ego what to do, harp on the need to kick ass all too often these days. Not a few tell us that they are mouthpieces for even more powerful people who want events to flow and public loyalties to go their way. I would encourage them to sign up or at least send some relatives to the war to give them some kind of credibility when they berate us for not thinking that getting humans out of the way is the way to get away with it.

I have a feeling that lying has become an art form these days. They may think they are telling the truth, but when they are told no, they continue to “push propaganda,” as the president probably inadvertently put it recently. Someone had told him that this is how a point is conveyed and he forgot to leave that out of the public explanation. Freudian stuff!

So if you want to stop a war, just show a war. Enter some keywords or find the sites on the web that are willing to show you “what God has done.” You will not like it. You’re going to use that you can’t look at “things like that”. Some of you might look and wonder what it was like in the last seconds of that person’s life. Some of you will think about your own children and what would happen if that happened to you. Most of you will just say “oh my gosh”. But you won’t see it on the news or on the US news. Very disorganized. too honest. Too useless for whatever cause is being promoted at the moment and useless in promoting present truth.

If your biggest test of the day is going to the mall or mowing the lawn, I’m happy for you. If your main concern is what to wear tonight or where to go, then good for you. If the sermon you hear tomorrow or next week or next month is about love, compassion, getting along, and is full of tenderness, great. If you go to a church where the pastor rants and raves about Jesus coming soon and the King of the North will pounce and be pressured by the King of the South, and then Iraq will be this and Iran will be that with Jerusalem. being surrounded by armies and angels swooping in to free them all and make you holy, you’re not in a church, you’re in a holy war recruiting station. If he’s going to do that, at least ask him to show the congregation the footage of the current invasion of Lebanon and the things that actually happen when humans do the Lord’s dirty work for him. If you nod in pleasant approval of such things and think that the Jesus of the Sermon on the Mount is also the Jesus of Revelation, you better try again and see if you can get back to a group that at least believes in the Kingdom of God is there. made of whole children and not just pieces.