Friday, March 5, 2010
Wars Unintentional Killing
Collateral damage has become a term that is used to often to explain military mistakes. Unintentional or accidental even but, it could be that it has just become another excuse to use in order to hide the truth. To often during war people are killed as a result of reckless actions. Military goes in and as a result of certain circumstances or not having the proper understanding end up killing the wrong people. Civilians, women, men, families, and children that were innocently killed. Killed all because they are caught in the middle of a war that just so happens to take over where they live. War that far too often comes in a destroys innocent lives. With no compassion to the lives that it will ruin. The lives that happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. The people that live amongst the enemy yet, do not support the enemy. Even though they don’t support the enemy they become the enemy just because they live around it. In the poem “ From the Diary of an Almost-Four-Year- Old” I believe that this just so happened to be the case. This four year old just so happened to be living in the middle of the war that came and took over their life. That’s when I start to believe that this collateral damage can not be justified because its hard to believe that a four year old would be left wandering around war active areas. The only way this child was exposed was if the war came into the area they lived in, and used it as a battle field. With out any sort of regards as to those who were living there and the danger that they imposed on them. That is one of the many reasons why I don’t like war it kills too many innocent people that had or wanted nothing to do with the war. It cannot be justified when innocent lives are killed. When the war begins they go in with the intent of killing in a lot of cases killing anyone and everyone if possible. Killing in war is something I cant say is justifiable. It almost contradicts itself. Unintentional killing, not really war goes in with the intention of killing. War takes over and causes damage in so many ways. It has just become a term to “justify” or make right the actions that have been committed. This poem was really sad to me the thought of a four year old living amongst such an environment. The war may have been going on for so long it may have been all the child had seen in its life time. Which is why I believe they thought they had seen enough in their life. Which is why they were okay with dying. Which tears my heart even more what child has a life so limited and so destroyed that they are okay with dying? A child that lives in war. Wars that happens way to often and cause "collateral damage".
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I really found your post to be interesting, I wrote about the same thing that you did. You seem to have a very firm opinion about collateral damage. An opinion that I would have to say that I agree with in many different ways. In looking at what you said, I’d also have to say that war is a terrible thing, unfortunately it seems to be unavoidable at times. It would be wonderful if we could live in a better world where these things didn’t have to take place, but sadly we don’t, and at times a nation must step in and defend itself from attack.
ReplyDeleteI would have to agree with you where you said that collateral damage often takes places because of the reckless actions of the military. A lot of people really do not take responsibility for their actions in these cases, and for some I think it helps to make them feel better by clumping these sorts of casualties in such a category as collateral damage. Yes, I can’t really see how killing in war is justifiable either. But as I said before, there were many good points that you brought out. It really causes one to stop and think.
I completely agree with your posting. I too feel that war takes the lives of too many innocent victims just as in “From the Diary…” this kid was looking at a soldier face to face and the soldier had no remorse. This type of violence could never be justified and when does somebody ever stop and say THAT’S ENOUGH there are too many people and babies dying. Collateral damage almost seems like a nonchalant word for saying oops we made a booboo there’s nothing we can do now. But how brave was the kid to really stand there and look at this man trying to kill him. This is where I see all the innocence in this child reveal itself, as he was turning for all he could think about was getting his new eye and what the world was going to look like. From what I could remember he did not have any hatred in his heart or bad feelings he just wanted to celebrate having a new eye. I think your blog touched on all the same things that I felt when I read this poem I couldn’t have written this better myself. This was a poem that really made me appreciate my children and the country that I live in.
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