Recently in Sudan, 60,000 inhabitants in the Sudanese city of El Fasher were simply slaughtered. How is that possible?  The arms industry and its many international branches of enterprise make it possible and our administration’s indifference to such horrifying mayhem enables.  Silence is compliance.  Some of that silence may be connected to our leader’s lucrative private business profits in the middle east.  

We are talking civilian men, women, and children here and much of that death was simple executions out of an almost casual compulsion rather than any war’s necessity (whatever necessity may look like).  Humanity can come off the rails.  Even under the uncertain and volatile leadership our nation still needs to reset the scale of conscience when it comes to the slaughter of innocents. Many of your previous Presidents were wealthy, but how many were personally and privately invested the fortunes of countries this close to the execution of atrocity?  There are things that could be done in Sudan that don’t include parading American ships, Top Gun jets and the expensive flexing of American military biceps. Lets face it, it is ours, the United States, the world’s indifference, and intentional ignorance that lies at the root of these 60,000 deaths in El Fasher.  If there were one strong reason for our strong military to exist it would be to stop this kind of intentional tragedy for no other reason than we believe in human life. Anything else is hypocrisy at the highest level.

Modest Proposal for Good

We must expand our investment in conflict reduction, deescalation, and resolution world wide.  Right now we are promoting an arms race, and when that happens the score is kept by the totals of civilian deaths and fortunes made.  That qualifies as an evil game. The good decisions of international order must be based on the individual’s absolute right to remain alive, reasonably safe, and the dignity of that pursuit. The right to live with dignity must transcend race, religion, class, color, nationality and even revenge.  We can offer dignity for free requiring only the skill of emotional intelligence. We could have already fed and medicated a huge portion of the world’s population on the money wasted on this current war.  Lets get back on the original train that was America; a country with wealth, rights, and dignity promoting the same for a stable globe.  That would be good. The price of peace is far, far less costly than war.  The price of war is ultimately death and for this writer that is not good.