thoughts on war and death

With all the war and killing going on around the world. i thought i'd put my thoughts down on video. Song is the REM - Final Straw

Warning: Contains graphic images

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• anti
• war
• anti-war
• death
• iraq
• iran
• REM
• Final
• Straw
• congo
• vietnam
• lebanon
• middle
• east
• darfur
• rwanda
• 9/11
• israel
• genocide

[mzambruno]

And where's the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39?

[vigant]

unfortunately if i were to mention every war then this video would need a full day to be watched.

[taniwha77]

This is a rare example of honest and sincere pacifism. I'm afraid that most of the so called "peace movement" these days pointedly takes sides, and at best merely substituting a crude notion of rebel good, soldier bad for real morality.

An interesting, if brutal, take on the nature of war here:

http://www.blackfive.net/main/­2006/08/on_the_virtues_.html

[vigant]

thanks. lovely site. appreciate the comment

[steveohh]

"War is an ugly thing, but not the worst of things... The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal security is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

- John Stuart Mill

War is terrible. So I guess we should have just let those Nazis have their way with the Jews and the gays and the gypsies.

[vigant]

Think you're missing the point. you can't say if we did nothing about the nazi what would have happened. without saying if the nazi's never did what they did what would have happened. what i'm trying to say is each and every one of us including nazi's need to look inside ourselves and fight the urges which make all of us commit such horrible crimes

[cosmo071071]

The death toll in this video is over 150 million human beings. 150 million killed in wars during the last 100 years. Fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters and friends. Why and for what?

[ffm20zaheri]

hmmm who knows if obama is better

i mean clinton was a democrat too but there had been wars in his periode

[1991rch]

You forgot the israeli massacres commited in lebanon, palestine, syria, egypt...:)

[twiztedpair]

The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them. - Gene Roddenberry

[giroscoptero]

Muito bem, excelente. Parabéns a quem produziu.

[emel703]

OBAMA

[hematite124]

do u understand that loads of people r dying so that bush can hav money that shows what a capitalist nation america is. barack obama needs to be president but a lot of americans r to stupid to realise that.

[cosmo071071]

to orkomanic...tell me who`s good? every nation has its dark past. every nation.

[WorldChallenge]

Beautiful song.

[Orkomagic]

I think Michael Stipe should spend part of his millions and make a trip to Iraq and the Gaza strip and have a chat with a couple of terrorists, maybe sing them a song so they won't be bad anymore.

[Jonirs]

..and it wont help not making a youtubevideo about it!

! and thank you for stating the obvious...