Earth's Worst Enemy

This is intended for everyone who thinks violence is horrible, and for everyone who has been violent before. It's purpose is to show that the real blame isn't on guns and missiles and terrorists; it's on us.




"EIT". Enhanced Interrogation Techniques. Another word for it would be, "torture".

Yes, you read that right. Torture.

The US CIA has been using EIT's on terrorists to gain information to "save American lives". What they haven't taken into account is that by using this acquired information, they are still killing lives. They may not be American lives, but they are lives none the less. Of course, when taken into account that a war is going on between America and Iraq, I'm fairly sure both countries don't give two shits about the other side. (I apologize for my profanity.)

It's all very horrible, yes I know. Torturing captured people to gain information to kill more people isn't morally right. It never will be. But the matter of the fact is, that it's happening and there's close to nothing we can to about it. EIT's will not stop being used simply because President Obama has revealed that they're being used in the first place. The war with Iraq won't end because you want Canadian soldiers to come back home. All the calamity in our world isn't going to go away because we want it to go away.

Because the simple truth is that violence and destruction and chaos isn't because of terrorists and guns and weapons of mass destruction. Nuclear warfare, and exploding missiles aren't Earth's worst enemy. Guns don't shoot themselves, missiles don't launch because they want to; a punch isn't thrown because our fists have minds of their own. We pulled the trigger, we pushed the button, and we threw the punch. We're Earth's worst enemy, and if you haven't realized that then you are in serious need of a reality check.

But we can try to stop it. We can rise up as a nation and make our voice be heard. We can stop trying to pick fights and stop lending our help to the bullies who are picking the fights. We can suppress that raging desire to sock someone right across the face because they pushed our buttons a little too hard. There are so many things we can do; so many things we can try. But we have to be willing to take that chance.

So my real question for you isn't "what are you going to do to stop these 'enhanced interrogation techniques'."

It's, "what are you going to do to stop yourself?"