(The Destructiveness of war) a found poem by my nephew

It is the moaning of the world. A shell lands in the trench. Beside me a lance corporal has his head torn off. We stumble over slippery lumps of flesh,over yielding bodies. between five and ten recuits fall to every old hand. Every yard there lies a dead man. The earth is black with blood. Life is one continual watch against the menace of death.

After 40 plus days of war in kosovo is there really any winners, I think not. I think it is a horror show lead by misguided arrogance. It is time to demand that this action over there be stopped. We all have families,is this what we want them to inherit,I think not. There is no excuse for putting the innocent people thru such a horror show. If you cant deal with their leaders,your beef is with there leaders. But stop taking it out on the people of that country. We must work harder for peace before it is to late. Russia and china are pissed off about the balklans fiasco and rightfull so. Nato has not allowed them the room to peacfully solve this matter. Your Ideas for creating a successful Peace action that will put this matter in the camera's eyes would be welcome. I remember how horrible it was watching some friends come back from the vietnam war irrepairably broken and some friends not come back at all. Were making the worst mistakes of the 20th century all over again. Lets not stand by and watch without giving our best effort to protest this insanity that is going on. Leaders start wars, It takes action by conerned loving people to stop them.

Think PEACE Help stop the VIOLENCE y2k aware mike Plant the PEACE FOREST.

-- y2k aware mike (y2k aware mike@conservation.com), May 19, 1999

Answers

Sad to say Mike it's a done deal, America IS asleep - just look around you... my fifteen plus co-workers never even discuss Yugoslavia - bizarre and truly unbelievable considering what is at stake here...

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), May 19, 1999.

It's not a war. It's a massacre. Our government has the blood of children on its hands, cut to ribbons with cluster bombs.

-- Spidey (in@jam.commie), May 19, 1999.

Andys last statement is 'sad but true' where I work too (120 people).

But I notice that even I (who supposedly sometimes think this COULD lead to WW III) can't seem to get excited about it for very long .

Humans have a definite threshold for bearing bad news. Clinton has used this knowledge for years. So it is just a fact of life --- people have been pretty much emotionally overwhelmed by one crisis or the other and have little emotional energy left to give.

-- Jon Johnson (narnia4@usa.net), May 19, 1999.

Kosovo isn't the only place in the world where people are busy slaughtering each other. Africa is chock-full of civil wars, & check out what's going on in Indonesia. Why do we choose to involve ourselves in one conflict & ignore the others? Is Kosovo any less intractable a problem than, say, Algeria?

-- let's stay (out@of.it), May 19, 1999.

Yup, 180,000,000 people were butchered during this century, excluding wars. Let's not talk about it.

-- Lee Ng (Ng@fong.om), May 19, 1999.

Any info on sites that talk about what's REALLY going on in Kosovo? I was a Marine in Beirut and remember what it was like to get woken up by incoming bombs and rockets. I'm not so sure about what we are doing over there. I truly feel for the civilians over in Kosovo and I wonder what is really going on. What's up?

-- Clyde (clydeblalock@hotmail.com), May 20, 1999.