Believing In Something, Strongly

IF YOU BELIEVE IN SOMETHING strongly enough, if your cause is good and true and just, spare no effort fighting for it, never give up, be willing to sacrifice everything. So goes the oft articulated wisdom, wisdom of the ages, century after century, unchanging. So, it must be true. But you get tired of trying, and not failing, but not succeeding. What frustrates me is my seeming inability to successfully complete my own personal crusade, my seeming inability to convince even a single American that whereas the U.S. has been a at war in the middle east for nearly thirty years, continuously, that so being has been a matter of choice, a mere option, a deliberate decision by the U.S., and that the results have been tragic, and that the war was begun by the U.S. deliberately, for nefarious reasons, using a most evil form of deception. The never ending war in Iraq and Afghanistan is neither necessary, nor forced upon America, nor even remotely desirable. it is a complete scam, a mere imperialistic act of aggression, intended, like most American foreign policy, to do nothing other than further enrich the already rich corporate community of these United State of Aggression. Everyone knows about the thirty year war, assuming non residency on Mars. that part is easy of which to convince folks. Unless, of of course, you'r a millennial, and too young to care, or, as mentioned above, residing on Mars. the hard part is getting people to understand the real reasons. Here's what I always do: I tell people to type into google the April Glaspie, then scroll down to where it says "conversation with Saddam", click on it, and read.Its that simple. I never have any trouble getting people to do that, unless they promise to do it later, and later never comes. After doing this, the person inevitably does nothing. nothing other than getting up from the computer, stretching legs, and going on about business, sometimes after saying to me something like"good to see you." What everybody should do, after completing this simple task, is turn red, scream and curse violently, and start tearing up the immediate environment, a good target being the actual computer upon which the material appeared. Oh, I remember a librarian, a middle aged portly woman of mediocre intellect, who did the reading, which doesn't take long, then growled a little bit while walking away. I was proud of her; she's the only person who ever even came close to behaving properly, reacting appropriately. Later, however, she banned me fro her library for talking too much left wing politics and particularly for making many negative comments about the Christian religion in public, so, so much for her. She's one of them. But at least she cared, if only a little bit. She understood. hell, everybody understands. Its that easy. but why nobody seems to throw a tantrum afterwards is utterly, completely beyond me. Even my sister, a retired high ranking pentagon D.O.D. big shot, made nary a sound. Maybe she was trying to cover the backs of her own kind, or something. She damned well understood, alright, but...did nothing. these other people I can't control, and it does not good to other than chastise them behind their ass covered backs. But I confess to be especially disappointed in my sweet sister. She should know better.