If America’s soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read: Ukraine.
If America’s soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read: Ukraine.
Is the current thing really about Ukraine?
As you’ve probably seen, on Saturday, October 7, 2023, in the early morning hours, a militant group called “Hamas” launched what is being called a terror attack in Israel. The attack lasted hours and still may be ongoing.
Video footage suggests Hamas militants have kidnapped and killed civilians, including women and possibly children. Israel has declared war. There are reports that other groups like Hezbollah may be joining Hamas. None of this looks good. Many are asking is it really possible no one in Israel-US-UK intelligence knew anything about this well-planned attack beforehand?
While I may detail my research later, for now, let me say, we should not forget the events of the past few weeks and earlier this year.
January 2023, Pentagon sends U.S. weapons stored in Israel to Ukraine.
September 28, 2023, the majority of house republicans voted (117-101) against providing $300 million in funding to Ukraine.
October 3, 2023, House Republicans led by Matt Gaetz ousted speaker Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the house after learning he made a side deal with Democrats to continue funding Ukraine.
Because of the last two events, the republican controlled house cannot be relied on to appropriate more money for Ukraine, and that freaked the establishment warmongers out.
So what am I suggesting? Yes, I am suggesting that those for whom we are really funding the Ukraine war had some hand in pushing for or instigating this Hamas attack now at this moment and making sure the world sees it.
Why? Well, if Republicans won’t fund Ukraine, surely they’ll fund Israel. Then the U.S. will send Money and weapons to Israel and those resources will be used for Ukraine. Once that happens, Israel and Hamas will come to the table to talk peace.
Now this is only what makes sense in my head. But, Before I could finish this article, the tweet below appeared.
At this point, I think we all would do well to listen to the speech Dr. Martin Luther King delivered on April 4, 1967—“Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence.”
If you cannot listen to it, I’ve reproduced a few quotes from the speech below.
Among other things, Dr. King discusses the difficulty of opposing one’s own government’s policies in a time of war and the difficulty of conformist thought.
“A time comes when silence is betrayal." And that time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. The truth of these words is beyond doubt, but the mission to which they call us is a most difficult one. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government’s policy, especially in time of war.
Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one’s own bosom and in the surrounding world. Moreover, when the issues at hand seem as perplexing as they often do in the case of this dreadful conflict, we are always on the verge of being mesmerized by uncertainty; but we must move on.”
Dr. King also described how his silence in the face of his own government’s war violence conflicted with his conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action.
As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. But they ask -- and rightly so -- what about Vietnam? They ask if our own nation wasn’t using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted.
Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.
Near the end of his speech, Dr. King suggested that war is the thing that will poison the soul of America. These lines remain true today.
Now, it should be incandescently clear that no one who has any concern for the integrity and life of America today can ignore the present war. If America’s soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read: Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it destroys the deepest hopes of men the world over. So it is that those of us who are yet determined that America will be -- are -- are led down the path of protest and dissent, working for the health of our land.