Bin laden has released a new video addressing the American people, 4 days before the Presidential election. Im still struggling over this one, could my worst fears be confirmed?
Is the lust for power and control great enough to cause men to give up any shred of morality and integrity? More importantly the question that is corrosive to my soul: Is our government willing to murder its own citizens in order to achieve its political ends?
These thoughts have been circulating on the tip of my conscious for sometime now. I fear for future generations and the world they will inherit. It appears they will be given a world in which human life has no worth, and greed takes precedent over morality.
Eisenhower saw it coming when in his farewell address he said, "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.". This has happened, and Iraq like Vietnam, is the manifestation of this insatiable thirst for greed.
These elections are a mockery of democracy. Each candidate offers more unconditional war, bad for the victims of its indifference for human life(100,000+ Iraqi's murdered), good for those who stand to profit.
My optimism in the future is subdued by an overwhelming feeling of cynicism for those whose grasp power no matter the cost. Its up to the next generation of policy makers to change the course of humanity. If they fail, mankind will soon follow suit.