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A seriously wounded boy waits to be treated in Aleppo, Syria in one of the city's last standing hospitals
A seriously wounded boy waits to be treated in Aleppo, Syria in one of the city's last standing hospitals
Remarks at Houston Peace and Justice Center Conference on April 25, 2015.
I hope to be brief enough to leave lots of time for questions after I talk.
I know that most of you are probably exceptions to what I'm about to say, because I suspect that most of you came here voluntarily. If you're here on duty for the FBI, raise your hand.
You may all be the exceptions, but most people in the United States have no idea of the suffering that war brings.
War brings suffering first through the wasting of some $2 trillion every year, roughly half of it by the U.S. government alone, but much of the weaponry purchased with the other $1 trillion, spent by other governments, is U.S.-made weaponry. Never mind what the money is spent on. It could be dumped in a hole and burned and we'd all be better off, but the most suffering is caused by what it's not spent on.
Comment: Sadly, it seems like only once the Western world is suffering under the brutality of its own governments, en masse, will it begin to understand something of what other peoples of the world have been undergoing.