The protection of innocent children and families are enshrined in the Declaration of Human Rights that Eleanor Roosevelt read to our nation in the late 40's.
The US has not lived up to that pledge. The suffering and early death of so many innocent people in the colonial wars in Viet Nam, Afghanistan, Chile and Iraq also impacted home life upon the soldier's return, as divorces and suicides soared. Certainly the return to employment as local law enforcement and the brutality against people of color by veterans - is still going on. How can peace be attained with such gigantic Pentagon budgets? We have become a military economy. The Pentagon is not a government department; it is a world.
