Wounded Knee, war, and debt
11 January 2008 by riverbird
A good friend of mine passed a book on to me last fall, which I have only recently picked up and am yet barely 70 pages into. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, by Dee Brown, an Indian history of the American West; and I understand there may be an (HBO?) movie which I have not seen.
A passage I read through last night struck me directly, particularly considering current circumstances - Little Crow, a Santee Sioux, August 1862:
Why was it that the Americans talked so much of peace, and yet they themselves waged such a savage war that they had no money left to pay their debts?
It seems to me that’s always the way of every warring nation, the US included. I think lip-service is paid to ‘peace’ and really, nothing more.
My 2 cents.
“talking of peace”
you mentioned: it’s “talking” not “doing” not “feeling” not anything else. Just and Just talking. Only that! Americans ( no offense to any civilian ) always talk about peace while CIA, has waged hundreds of civil wars around the world. Bush has killed more people than any other person has, ever. I never understood and never will, that why God made this world so unfair. *sigh*
what makes you think God makes this world unfair? if He/She didn’t make the world unfair, then who did?