Following the understandable outrage at Joseph Kony over the course of the past week, I wanted to highlight something that is equally evil, has an even greater potential human toll, and is more preventable. I don't have a video to post, so I'll explain, and I'll try to be brief:
Our government is ramping up for a war against Iran, just as it did with Iraq ten years ago. It is doing this despite the fact that Iran is not a threat to our security and that they are completely contained with 45 U.S. military bases surrounding them.
There is nothing new about this type of needless war; Iraq was not a threat, nor was Afghanistan, nor was Libya, etc. But Iran is vastly bigger than any of these previous military adventures. The consequences would be astronomical.
A war with Iran would:
- kill thousands of American soldiers and leave tens of thousands wounded and scarred for life
- slaughter hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians and displace millions more
- further erode precious liberty at home
- destroy hundreds of billions and even trillions of dollars in wealth and property, and trillions more in opportunity cost
- further cripple our economy with even higher soaring energy prices
- further destabilize the region and the world
- create countless new enemies
- make us far less safe
It is good for us to be concerned about human suffering around the world at the hands of evil men like Kony, but it is imperative for us to be concerned about human suffering around the world and at home caused by our very own government.
We must not let our government do this. We have one chance in the coming presidential election to prevent it.
(photo credit www.lewrockwell.com)
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