This is how I think too. I have thought this way since the sixties. In high school I thought differently and went to West Point after, but I changed. I am stained by the wars my country has fought through my life and through my family before my life too. A war may not be necessary no matter how many politicians try to say it is. And war is always an evil no matter how many politicians and generals say it is not.
However I am skeptical rather than a pacifist. I would fight an invader, for example. Sometimes one must marry what is evil on this planet, accept the stain of it and move on.
But just because I have to engage does not absolve me from evil. Knowing that clarifies things.
I live in a land
ReplyDeleteWhere we see no evil
Hand to eyes
It is no suprise
What has happned
I live in a land
Where we speak no evil
Hand to mouth
There is no doubt
About it
I live in a land
Where we hear no evil
Hand to ear
No way to hear
What might be happening
I live in a land where it may be true
All those things will be missconstrued
In the cause of the greater good