moral concerns

Never mind the moral concerns, if you're prosecuting a war, at whatever level, whether as leader of a nation, as a grunt in the field, as paper pusher in an office, or as a citizen who supports the efforts of any of the former (including spouses and children who give aid and comfort and thereby further enable the bellicose actions of the various warrior classes), then you are compromising (at best, or far worse, debilitating) the future of this planet and the human species.

Lives are being lost, lives of people who might have one day contributed significant knowledge and wisdom to our great adventure, who might have acted to relieve much suffering and further death, who might have advanced us much farther along toward becoming the benevolent and humane species we are capable of being, who might have found a way to more effectively negate the nastiness strain that currently runs through our basic human nature.

And an incredibly enormous amount of money is being wasted on campaigns and munitions, money that could be used to advance us in the same ways as people who are dying might have, that could be used for medical and genetic research, that could raise humanity up to levels previously unthought of, not only some few of us, but everyone. Those of us who think this is a bad idea, who smugly claim that wars (and poverty) kill off the worst of us, can go to hell (and will).

President Obama: You are responsible here. You market yourself as a caring politician, which is why we elected you, despite the intense opposition of warmongers, greedmongers, and bigots. And yet you allow their policies and practices to proliferate, you even adopt them and adapt them to your own political agenda. This is not acceptable. You are selling the future of the planet and its populations for present day political convenience. Stop it! Come out from among them.

Actually, now that I think back on it, these are moral concerns.

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