Another attack on another unsuspecting western city. This time it's Manchester, England. Sleepy small town vibe, innocent Manchester, but 2nd largest city in England. Yes, it's horrendous that children were killed, innocent children, among the young adults. Humans who have limited understanding of their growing identities into whom they will become. Cut short. Life is over. It's a horror I agree. And governments are incapable of preventing this sort of thing or are they?
Our constant invasions and our own attacks on the Middle East certainly haven't helped the situation. What roils me most, besides those numbed brain fanatics killing & maiming people, are the lame verbal responses from government officals and the tough talking retired generals and the cable "news" shows talking about how the fanatics can make their bombs and the triggers they use and the pointing of fingers and the showing of yellow taped off scenes and interviews with the shocked who had been there and the "will ISIS take reponsibilty?" meme repeated over and over, but also the responses from ordinary people on social media. The so-called "in our hearts" response. Oh fuck you already. This is your way of saying what? Oh I'm so sorry. No, what you're saying is I'm glad it isn't me. Stop supporting this so-called war on fanatics because there is no victory in the current way we are doing it. And it's not going to stop. This so-called war is fig leaf bullshit. All the crap that we the U.S., the Europeans are doing is window dressing, theater, security theater.
What we've got to do is get out of the Mideast. Stop with the racism. Try to come up with some kind of diplomatic reasoning. Stop kissing Saudi Arabia's ass as well as the other countries in the Mideast that are paying up to prevent attacks on themselves. It's their problem. Not ours.
Western governments have bombed the stuffing out of the Mideast and social media discussions support those assaults on their innocent children or at best "tut tut" over the air strikes, but their children aren't wept over in this manner. How many are dead, maimed, demoralized in Syria? There are thousands and thousands killed and maimed. (No we're not bombing civilians! Russia is. Only Russia. Right?) How many drone strikes does it take to help destroy a country. How many Mother of All Bombs will we need to drop on Afghanistan. Yeah we're going after ISIS, Al Qaeda, the Taliban and I don't know who else. And nothing changes and bomb makers are making lots and lots of money! You know who the losers are? We're the losers. The winners are the arms manufacturers.
It's not like England doesn't have an expensive top of the line security apparatus as does the United States as does the EU. And it is costly. But that's not going to stop one individual. Doesn't matter how many stops of entrapped wanna be fanatics there are over the years. It just takes one who is smarter than that. So that old saw that says: if you keep repeating the same things over and over but expect different results you are crazy.
I don't want to sound heartless. It pains and upsets me when I hear about these insane bombings. It upsets me about the babies, the children, the young adults, the old people, the destruction of families and the loss of friends and also the people who have to clean up and try to put people back together. And what about the houses and communities and cities that are destroyed? I put myself in the shoes of the survivors. I think what if I were in that situation, what would I be doing, saying? Existing? Responding? Goddamn it we are all humans! But here sitting at my laptop or you sitting at your laptop, tablet, phone are so far removed, and so it's alright to strike one's breast in sorrow but how about a mea culpa already? We are guilty too.
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