War by Chris Hedges

After reading Chris Hedges's thoughts on the Iraq War, I am shaken. For years, I have felt blinded by the media. Only on rare occasions have I ever been given an insight to the horrors and the traumatic experiences suffered by the soldiers in any war. The reasons for the war are awful as well. I understand his point of views, which state that the War on Terror in the Middle East is hypocritical in a sense. "This myth, the lie, about war, about ourselves, is imploding our democracy. We shun introspection and self-criticism. We ignore truth, to embrace the strange, disquieting certitude and hubris offered by the radical Christian Right." The attitude of some radical Christians is not any better than the atittude of radical Muslims, but Christians do not look at themselves. Now, I am not suggesting that either religion is violent, but rather that each has its own good and bad people. And yet, in the United States, too many people are blaming the entire Islamic population for the actions of a few sociopaths. No one, however, blames the entire Christian population for the KKK. The actions of a few can not define the intentions of a whole group.