Few are punished or even investigated. So what makes us so different from the Nazis or the leaders of the Congo or Rwanda or South Africa?! Are we avoiding the killings of innocents after lessons learned from history? Hell no! Historically, once wars start, they take years to end and then new ones begin! Why can't humans live in peace like most of the rest of nature's living beings? If we continue on this path, what's the eventual fate of the already overpolluted earth?! Who is responsible?
We the people are certainly responsible to stand up and demonstrate and oppose war at the outset and as it continues. But, of course, we desparately need good leadership to help us. It's been absent for all these years. According to Answers.com, the Vietnamese "fought for 11 years against France between 1946-1957, and 18 years against the U.S. Between 1957-1975."
If it had not been for repetitious and emotional and sometimes violent demonstrations by U.S. Citizens, that war could have gone on indefinitely. Yet as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan started and continued on for years, few have staged similar demonstrations. On the contrary, many in this country have supported those wars. They have done so despite all the killings of innocents, the thousands of U.S. casualties and war related illnesses and the lack of resolution to the so called War on Terrorism.
Looks like we learned absolutely nothing from the seemingly endless war in Vietnam. Why?
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