Chris Hedges, Pulitzer prize winner and author of “Death of the Liberal Class”, explains how we can no longer trust in the liberal standards to protect our rights because “the press, universities, unions, liberal churches and the Democratic Party have become corrupt”. Hedges participated in a weekday protest last Thursday and along with 130 others was arrested for non violent civil disobedience.
My experience was not unique. Veterans around me were back in the rice paddies and lush undergrowth of Vietnam, the dusty roads of southern Iraq or the mountain passes of Afghanistan. Their tears showed that. There was no need to talk. We spoke the same wordless language. The butchery of war defies, for those who know it, articulation.
What can I tell you about war?
War perverts and destroys you. It pushes you closer and closer to your own annihilation—spiritual, emotional and, finally, physical. It destroys the continuity of life, tearing apart all systems, economic, social, environmental and political, that sustain us as human beings. War is necrophilia.
