And rape IS violence.
And stress breeds stress.
Not only is the PTSD bad, when the vets come home, but many are suicidal OR homicidal, putting at risk their families and the public at large. This will haunt America for decades to come. TIME magazine carried a very good article on this about 3 weeks ago.

On top of this, our CIC has now bought into the Bush Doctrine that war for peace is GOOD, that civilian casualties are to be expected as we go through the world taking out dictators and building democracies. Giving them clean water, medical supplies and schools and staying as long as needed until they are free to stand on their own two feet. Sounds like Cheney got to him.

Violence doesn't solve anything after awhile; it just perpetuates:

"When you push a populace to violence, you unleash a poison that infects everyone. I don't believe in the term "A Just War." ... And the longer we continue to speak to those in the Middle East through the language of violence, the more we empower those who are only capable of speaking back to us in the language of violence. When you look at 9/11: huge explosions and death above the city skyline, nihilistic violence as a message. Where did they learn that from? From (Secretary of Defense Robert) McNamara of '65, when he justified the bombing of North Vietnam, which left hundred of thousands of Vietnamese dead (in the name of) delivering a message to Hanoi.

The perpetrators of 9/11 simply learned to speak the language we taught them. ... You cannot promote a virtue through force. ... You cannot implant democracy through force. Because once you use force, you speak in a language in which the very concept of human rights is an absurdity."
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