Grinding One":jbf3s2vv said:
Travis":jbf3s2vv said:
Can't we all get along?
8) 8) 8) 8)
yup I can!!
I guess the issues surrounding your fellow American comments are why it is difficult for many people to be pro American and although I said that I did not particularly wish to be drawn into that thorny subject surrounding happenings before I was born I will try to explain my feelings
Your fellow countryman said and I quote
"Get a clue would you the US gave all kinds of aid during the war to Russia,England,France and guess what After the war rebuilt Gemany and helped Japan back onto their feet"
Firstly forget this altruistic myth about coming to the aid of the UK in the 2nd World War. US soldiers had no choice they were ordered to fight on the side of the British by the American Government. This was in order to protect the colossal armament contracts which American Commercial Companies were making millions out of. Sadly the soldiers were just canon fodder. After the war the American companies continued to make enormous profits from contracts placed to rebuild cities and infrastructure destroyed in the conflict.
Moving on to the Japanese conflict and the myth surrounding America helping to put Japan back on it's feet, to quote your fellow countryman. America had just dropped the most deadly weapon known to mankind onto large populated cities in Japan wiping millions of innocent civilians from the face of the earth. Of course it helps Americans sleep better at nights if it tells it's self that this act of mass murder of innocent Japanese people saved many thousands of military lives on both sides if the conflict had continued but if you really explore your conscience about this horrendous act it is impossible to justify. There again it could be said that the American armed forces had no say in the matter and were only carrying out orders given by the Government. This of course is true, in part but it was up to the American people to say no, however, as history has shown it took another major conflict, this time in Vietnam and many more innocent civilian deaths before the American people started to say enough.
You will have gathered by now that I am totally against aggression and killing of our fellow humans. As a practicing Buddhist for many years I am aware of the laws of Karma which may be easier to understand from a Christian perspective.
As you sow so shall you reap. Understanding these laws enables me and millions of Buddhist around the world to see the total futility of war. It is only now that these laws are coming home to roost on the aggressors.
Although I am not anti American, I am not anti anything except anti killing, so I do not wish harm on any one and like the rest of the world I looked on in horror at the events surrounding 9/11 and the huge loss of civilian life but if one wishes to the the laws of Karma at work, look no further and as the seat of super
power moves East and Far East as it surly will in the next decade America needs to hope that in those strongly Buddhist countries the civilians there are able to practice compassion against it's aggressors unless there will be many more innocent deaths-
Slightly confused you have changed your avatar symbol, the past is more difficult to correct
