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This is not about blame. This is not about shame. This is about change. We still have our finger on the nuclear trigger

What I fear is that, socially speaking, we’re afraid of change. We’re not afraid to wage war; we’re not afraid to kill. But we’re afraid of change

Dehumanization gets easier and easier, the more we engage in it. The process is called war. It’s called economic exploitation. And it’s called border control

War dehumanizes everyone it touches

We may search for blame, but blame — scapegoating — is never a solution, just further homage to the myth of redemptive violence

How can “love” be such a limited concept that it surrenders to the sword; that, as soon as things get complex with others, we decide our best option is to love the sword, and begin using it?

I couldn’t help but sense an order of importance here: American lives first, “innocent” Iraqi and Afghan lives last. And there’s one category of war deaths he fails completely to mention: vet suicides

Even as we allegedly pull out of Afghanistan, the American defense budget increases. Orwell was right. Endless war is the real point of all this

The first step in ending war is seeing it for what it is