WISE WORDS

(David Ranck Update below)

"Do we have the right here in the United States to say that we're going to kill tens of thousands, and make millions of peoples, as we have, refugees, kill women and children as we have...I very seriously question whether we have that right...when we use bombs, when a village is destroyed and civilians are killed...this is a moral obligation and moral responsibility for us here in the United States."

Who said that?

Not Barak Obama. Not Hillary Clinton. Not John McCain. Not even our favourite John Edwards.

Those wise words were said on November 26, 1967, on the television show Face the Nation, by Senator Robert Kennedy.

We substituted "Bombs" for "napalm" to keep the statement current. And of course the Senator was talking about Vietnam.
It just seems like we haven't learned very much in 41 years.

Except how to kill. We've never forgotten to do that, and we certainly do it more efficiently. Our own soldiers still get killed while they are killing, but we have managed to learn how to kill hundreds of thousands of humans while limiting our own deaths to less than five thousand.

So we are more efficient killers.
It just doesn't seem something to crow about.

In the 82 days after Robert Kennedy announced his decision to challenge a sitting president from his own party, his president announced he would not run for re-election; Dr. Martin King was assassinated, our cities burned, and then Robert Kennedy was assassinated. In 82 days we buried three leaders- one figuratively and two literally, and our world was irrevocably changed.

In twice that time- in less than 180 days, we will elect a new president. We can change our world again, for the better. Lets see just how much we've learned in 41 years.

See You In Court.

Update. Mr. Ranck has published an explanation of the events surrounding how he obtained the email he published, and what has occurred since then.
RANCK UPDATE