I Dreamed there was No War.

Song/Title written by The Eagles.

Since it's break, I've had a lot of time just to sit down and think about things. It's one of my favorite things to do, but life calls on me so much that I don't usually have time to do much thinking about things like this. But I thought I'd understand this a little better if I wrote it down somewhere so I could read it over from time to time. So here it is.

What I was thinking about mostly was how useless war and killing are. Not just the current war, I don't really have an opinion on Iraq. But just war in general and how people lose their lives. It just doesn't make sense to me how killing eachother is solving any problems. It's just creating new and bigger ones. If everyone could sit down in a room together and talk things over peacefully, then we wouldn't have war. But that won't happen, because the people leading most countries today (Including our own) are stupid. And because of that, people DIE. We simply can't understand that. People lose their lives. And even when that fact stares us in the face, we still go all out and send people to die. Look at the Civil War. More Americans lost their lives in that war than every single other war that we've ever been in combined. More than 640,000 people in the space of about 3 years. On an average, that's more than 550 people EVERY DAY dying. Americans killing Americans. And you want to know why? Because the people in the south couldn't agree or come to a compromise with those in the North. Both wanted it their way, and they wouldn't have it any other way.

Hitler did the same thing. He went to war across the entire world because he though the German race was better than other races of people. The man took racism and hated and raised them to something that seemed noble and correct. And people listened. People still listen to those same and similar messages. The Klu Klux Klan is still an organization in America. We even have an American Nazi Party. People that hate others because of their skin color or their religion and consider themselves so much better than others that they feel justified in killing those people. I can't even begin to understand these people. But isn't war just the same exact thing? Killing other people for something that we need and they have? Killing our own people to get those things? It's murder.

I see that people sometimes need to die for their protection, for their families. that's a perfectly understandable thing to do. I wouldn't hesitate to die for my family and my country. I understand that sometimes it needs to be done when people are trying to kill us. But what I'm trying to say is that people need to realize that war shouldn't ever happen. Sometimes it's necessary. But what people have done to eachother throughout history and even now is absolutely horrible.

What is wrong with the world today, when nations casually murder eachother's people? How can that possibly be justified? How can we say that it's right? Truthfully, we can't. We can't say that it's OK to kill people. War is just murder. And yet in this damn country we've got more people worrying more about what clothes their wearing or their stupid video games than worrying about the death of so many people dying every day from war and violence. In America alone we have over 11,000 murders every year. 30 people every day dying because other people take away, steal their lives.

I wish that I could work with my words to put what my feelings are on this into writing. I feel as if I've barely scratched the surface of what there is to say. But I hope that I've left something to think about here, even if it isn't much.

"Rule Number 1 of war is that young men and women die. Rule number 2 is that doctors can't change rule number 1." -Col. Henry Blake, MASH

Merry Christmas, all.