What does humanity stand for in modern times?\nIs she willing to die for her country, or a cause like liberty or a word like freedom?\nIs he willing to die for his religion, or any one ideology -- like democracy -- or any number of 'ism's?\nDoes she murder self-created terrorists in the name of salvation, or under the banner of patriotism or to stake one nation's claim for fossil fuels?\nDoes he murder already dehumanized others in the name of liberation, or under the banner of preventative occupation or to stake one nation's claim to human rights?\nIt makes no difference if she or he is right in the game of life when they are both wrong in the context of human survival.\nForeign Policy Update: "Israelis and Palestinians continue to slaughter one another over land and the right for each to survive as a recognized nation."\nNo matter the righteousness of their mission, or the relative evilness of their inheritance, death and destruction is all humanity has ever known -- because human beings justify violence and war as the only hope for peace and justice.\nCue Sound Bite: "Cutting and running is not defeat and retreat, unless you want to prolong the violence in the war you created."\nNo matter the democratic intentions or the free-market aspirations, humiliation and revenge is all humanity will forever know -- so long as human beings justify aggression and hatred as the only will of the prophets Jesus and Mohammed.\nThat is until human life wipes its mean-spirited shadow from the earth, and Mother Nature dies a premature death from the Homo sapien footprint engulfing the planet.\nCue Sound Bite: "We must murder all human beings before they kill humanity."\nBoth he and she want to wash away the human blood smothering their voting hands, so liberty can stand for compassion and freedom can stand for tolerance -- but a national militarized culture is all they have ever known, and a totalitarian international empire is all they will forever know.\nWill humanity ever again awake to the dawn of a day that does not begin with the headline: "Two U.S. soldiers died in Iraq and a crowd of Iraqis were blown to pieces yesterday"?
\nWe, the people, were told by the Oval Office and Defense Department that we needed to conquer Iraq, because Saddam loved weapons of mass destruction and because he was buddy-buddy with al-Qaida. The world was shown pictures of alumninum tubes, roving chemical weapon labs and Nigerian yellowcake.\nAnd, so, we invaded a country that had nothing to do with 9-11 -- after more-or-less abandoning our War on Terror in Afghanistan.\nWe now know Congress and the American people were misled, decieved, lied to - whatever you want to call it.\nAl-Qaida highjacked airplanes and used them like missles to kill 3,000 Americans.\nGeorge Jr., Dick and Donald have hijacked America and the death toll is still mounting.\nCue Sound Bite: "Brave Americans have not died in vain, because they were sent to their death, not for democracy, but for oil"
