As you've probably heard by now, the United States bombed Syria on Friday night as a response to the unneccesary and brutal attacks that President Assad has made on his own people. The U.S. has said they have proof of the attack, while Assad has denied it.
With the possibility of war breaking out due to a perceived escalation by the U.S in the eyes of Russia (they practically run Syria as they have kept Assad in power through military funding, troops and technology), it makes me think of a famous quote by philosopher George Santayana that states:
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
This quote brought three photos to mind that I took in the recent past. The first is of the Vietnam memorial and momentos left in remembrance of a fallen soldier:
The second shot is of the American Flag at Arlington Cemetery, always flying at half mast, in honor of fallen soldiers:
The final shot is of the World War II Memorial at night, honoring the soldiers who fought and died in what was the largest scale war in history:
The pattern is there. Evil arises, war breaks out...thousands - millions die. It saddens me that, as a species, we continue to make the same mistakes that our predecessors made. It is also a travesty that, as Martin Luther King, Jr. once stated, "...the fact that there are those who are seeking to equate dissent with disloyalty" is still a reality today. In order to instill change, we must be the change. Be the change so that we don't see young men and women leave their parents, children, siblings and friends without the ability to speak to, hug and love that person again. It is on us all to speak up and take the proper course to stop anything like this from occurring.
This is not a post against soldiers, a post bashing the removal of diabolical dictators, or saying we were wrong necessarily for shooting missiles at a country, no matter how awful that country's actions were.
When we don't learn from history, we repeat history. And that appears to be the neverending cycle we find ourselves in.
Maybe one day we will figure out how to make peace. I hope so.
So true. As long as we have scarcity there will always be this lie for profit they call war.
I don't think the people from those regions have the same narrative that we do? I realize it doesn't matter in the long run, as long as those few at the top continue to make war and send young men to die for the sake of those few "fat cats" at the top.
We have been lied to for so long about so many conflicts/pre-emptive strikes/invasions to find out later it was all in the name of the almighty dollar as the root.
It sickens me also but is now the world that "we" the west have created.
When Putin said yesterday "we live in a bubble" and we are all "sick of Americans" I felt him sincere. Don't get me wrong...if America pulled away from every Country it supports there would be mass atrocities globally from the lack of presence. Hell, nations would change hands in very short order.
We certainly do live in "The capitol" and have no knowledge of how it feels to be surrounded by war or your enemies. To have guns pointed at you all day long with nothing but hatred on the other end. Most of us feel relatively safe because of the distance but now all of that will change.
We have to ask ourselves are we ready for a country like NKorea to have the ability to launch nukes at the mainland North Americas? Are we ok with a fully nuclear Iran who has vowed to wipe Israel off the map? Are we also OK with the state of Palestine and its state of suffrage?
What next? I have been told from many Syrian friends that the so called "rebel's" trying to over throw Assad are not even Syrian's? They are "hired" guns... Who hired them? How does anyone know who really used the gas weapons?
Is this more weapons of mass destruction?
Nothing was done in Syria until 800 thousand people were displaced and thousands of lives lost.
The list of documented scandalized war designs throughout history is also repeating itself. We just keep letting them do it over and over again and now they can win our favor with simple use of the media.
I feel like the only way to end war is to end scarcity with movement to a resource base economy like in the words of the late great Jasque Fresco, "This shit has got to go".
I think that will be a long time to come and with the clock now "another minute closer to midnight", a catalyst for such a change may require something drastic that the whole world needs to stop and really look at what they are doing. Like most medicine I am sure it will taste very bad...
very informative
Good photography bro.Excellent capture,keep it up.
When will one party stand down and stop risking the life of innocent children?
We hope will no war again around the world, we hope world will be peace, I life in aceh, aceh is conflict area, but its stop after tsunami
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