The Senseless, Stupid Wars

So now he is a statistic.
Not the worst one, to be sure, only the little mentioned part, the tens and tens of thousands of veterans who now have to live the rest of their lives missing legs and arms and in many cases, part of their minds.
And for what?
Ah, say the people in power, they who sit home and send the young ones out to be killed, so that we are safe from terror.
But are we ?
It seems to me that there still are attacks in different parts of the world, or does that not matter as Mrs. Cheney suggested on the Jon Stewart show, as long as there are no threats to the US.
Now the wars that I have hated from the beginning in an abstract way have become very personal.
Now I begin to understand what so many thousands if not millions are feeling with their young members of the family either dead or maimed.
And no end in sight.
And no WMD ever, and no Bin Laden and no jubilant crowds cheering the soldiers as the destroy their country.
No flowers and hearts, only more misery for them and for us.
What a waste to boost the big egos of little men with too much power.
And Benjamin is just one of so many victims, on both sides, of these stupid, senseless wars.
Stop it and stop it now.