The Price Of War

There is an incredible decay afflicting the fabric of our society. It is sub-surface, but systemic. It is not the result of the false moral canards bandied about by conservative Republicans and neocons, but it is most certainly, at least in good measure, the direct result of the shameful policies and actions of said charlatans. They have put us at war with each other on domestic social issues, and at war with the rest of the world ideologically and militarily. If all the capital, both moral and financial, that has been wasted in the Iraq war, the culture war, the war on terror, the war on drugs, and all their other wars, had instead been invested in the betterment and equalization of opportunity for all memebers of our society, and building of the infrastructure necessary to accomplish that goal, we would be so much better off. There would be infinitely less depression, despair, disillusionment, dishonesty and every other breakdown of the individual that leads to the malaise of the whole. And maybe, just maybe, there would be peace and normalcy in Virginia today. There is a better way; and there must be a better day.