Bombs should be outlawed. Period.

Seriously: Do we really want to be dropping ordinance on people, with so much collateral damage resulting therefrom?

And then there are our cherished ideals about all human beings being endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, including Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness...

Unless, of course, said human beings happen to be too close to some target that "we" think is politically expedient to blow up.

To quote a wise man: ENOUGH. In the modern world, no one needs to bomb anybody, period, full stop.

One hundred years from now, Humanity will look back at our bomb-happy governments, and conclude that this was one of the most barbarous chapters in human history: a time when we though bombs were okay.

And to you who think this is a radical idea: Is it? Is it any more radical that the barbaric idea of "acceptable collateral damage"? Really? How about you take a good, hard look at exactly why you think it's okay for your government to drop bombs on people...and then, look closer, at the excuses they use to do so.

We -- you, me, anyone of "We the People", who theoretically are the ultimate authority for our governments' actions -- think it is okay to bomb things at the drop of a hat. Any excuse is good for bomb-dropping, just as long as the people affected are people we don't like...or people that happen to be in the same neighborhood as people we don't like.

Well hell -- they're not Americans, right? Who cares if we blow a city block to smithereens? After all, anybody in the general area of anybody we don't like is, most likely, going to be subject to whatever government we don't approve of, and therefore deserves to be killed or horribly maimed.

I think people tolerate this murderous behavior by our government because "that's the way it's always been". We the People think we can't do anything about it...which is exactly what the chickenhawks want you to think. We demonize "the enemy", so we don't have to consider the ramifications of "acceptable" collateral damage from bombs.

"It is only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated ... that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation." -General William Tecumseh Sherman

Do you want the U.S. to be a true leader in this world? How about we outlaw bombs? Do we in the U.S. have the courage to get along without bombing people?

-Scott