IS? in Voices Windward

A man enters a war zone, is captured by militants engaged in a hostile conflict brought around by fifty years of oppression and social stratification, their tactics are curt and brutal.

Dozens of children go about their day, fighter jets from nations some 15,000 km’s away who are “in it for revenge” drop several hundred grand missiles on top of them.Their fragile lives are extinguished with a moment of fire.

We talk of one and not the other, heck I’ve watched as people explain how one is a savage act and the other just “collateral damage” while we deal with “the sick criminals.”

A rather small militant force who has the local higher population density under the yolk of another community with central authority takes militant action against our enemies alongside our friends with weapons supplied by us, thankfully “they” kill white people and threaten EVERYONE so we have our trumpet call and kill innocent lives, some of them being children and spread fear because these people on pick ups surrounded by a dozen equal militant forces, five hostile nations and a menagerie of western gestapos are coming for YOU, yes you specifically.

Aid and compassion does not come from remote sovereign nations with the fading sounds of jet engines as your body is eviscerated by the weaponry they just dropped on a “viable target”.

Neither does it come with the ignorance and suspension of international assistance with similar (and much worse) ongoing situations globally.

That bad things are occurring, ofcourse, that the international community should act, certainly … These things go without saying, but look to the propaganda, the ignorance of our own abuse, the social manipulation and the targeting of cause, there is so much more to these events, but it seems we are just some broken and jaded that we’ve given up even critically assessing our own violence.