Consequences of Being a Soldier

Every choice has two consequences: intended and unintended. Intended are the ripples in the water that we can see or project and unintended are the ones we could not imagine.

It's been my experience that the unforeseen results of the choices we make leave the most lasting impressions and create the most changes within us and alter our lives most dramatically.

The wars being unleashed in the Middle East against innocent people have no honour and no purpose except corporate profit and Israeli hegemony; without a draft soldiers who volunteered to kill, terrorize, rape, oppress and humiliate innocent men, women and children face staggering consequences when they get back home.

Here is a list of some of the unintended consequences of volunteering to kill in wars: suicide, mental destruction, drug and alcohol addiction, murder, assaults, domestic violence, divorce, alienation from children, homelessness, guilt, rage and prison.

If you transform a man into a savage killing machine, turn him loose on unarmed souls and encourage him to slaughter, attack, rape and humiliate the innocent, no one comes out unscathed. The innocent are ravaged and snuffed out and the guilty soldiers with blood and suffering on their hands and souls emerge animals and once back in "civilized society" become caged predators who hate you.

Make no mistake, these soldiers hate the civilian world because we got to stay behind and live in our stupid cushy suburbs and pathetic arm chair generals got to pontificate about military strategy and "Al-Queda" while soldiers were turning children into shattered pieces of headless corpses.

For female soldiers they're facing a consequence previously unseen in military ranks, thanks to a misguided tenet of feminism women are now equal opportunity killers and the unintended consequence of this development is devastating. Women in combat are losing their children and being raped by their fellow soldiers; first their friends betray them and then the military establishment colludes to prevent prosecution of sexual assault from ever seeing the light of day.

Many female combatants are mothers and wives and they are discovering that being over seas for months and years at a time is not conducive to keeping a marriage or a family together; soldiering is costing these women their children and their spouses.

Just as they've caused millions of Iraqi women to lose their children, American mothers are losing theirs; just as they've turned millions of Iraqi women into widows, American female soldiers are losing their spouses.

The death and destruction and suffering you bring to the doorstep of another family will show up in the heart of your own homes.

For generations the corrupt and criminal American government has succeeded in convincing their citizenry that consequences are for other people and other nations; it's time to stop believing their lies.

The consequences of imperialism, mass murder and lies always come home to roost.