This was so very moving and heartfelt.

I think we do need to differentiate between sociopathic leaders and ordinary people, who often donate generously to aid poor people in other countries, and whose children are sent to be killed in wars while the people who order the wars sit safely at home.

White leadership also allows other whites to starve - such as what happened to the Irish during the Great Famine - the British Empire could have changed its policies so that instead of exporting food from Ireland it had donated some of it to the poor. I mean, it was supposed to be a Christian nation and Christ fed people, he didn't sell the food so they couldn't eat.

I recently read a quote by General Eisenhower:

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children." - President Dwight D. Eisenhower

He also warned about the military industrial complex.

The thing is - there was never a reason for us to invade Afghanistan or Iraq or interfere with Bosnia. After 9/11, the Taliban offered to turn over Bin Laden if we just gave them some evidence of what he'd done. We should have done that. As far as Saddam Hussein - he was a bit of a monster, but we didn't interefere with Idi Amin, and we haven't done anything to N. Korea...

Every time there is a war, innocent people die. I hate war. Sometimes it's necessary but we should do everything we can for peace. Because babies don't need to die and elderly grandparents don't need to cry.