Blame the government all you want but that is bullshit. "We The People" are the only ones that can put a stop to war. We can't blame politicians because we are the ones who put them into office and keep them in office.
It is our own fault and we are the only one's who can fix it.
Buffy Saint Marie on how she came to write Universal Soldier:
"It was the middle of the night and some soldiers came in wheeling their buddies on stretchers and wheelchairs and I'd never seen anything like that, they're all bandaged and shot up and I got talking to some of these soldiers and they knew there was a war but what it did to me was it made me question well, who was responsible for war?
I mean, was it these guys, you can't just point your finger at them, although they were there.
Or maybe it's Generals, maybe it's the Generals who make a career of telling these guys waht to do but maybe that doesn't go far enough.
I mean who tells the Generals what to do? Who points the Generals, in the Army at somebody else?
Ah, the Politicians, but here I am flying on the way to Toronto
and it had to go farther. By the time I got to the Purple Onion I said Who elects the politicians?
Ah, it's us, right? His orders come from far away no more. They come from him and you and me and brothers can't you see, this is not the way we put the end to war......"
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