Thoughts

Who does war benefit. Certainly not the people killing and being killed.  Nor does it benefit the elders, women and children caught in the crossfire or being raped in turn by the warriors who happen to control the places they live. It doesn't do anything but provide a world of misery for those who play in the fields where unexploded weapons lie in wait to take a arm or leg. It doesn't benefit the farmer who see's his crops destroyed or his barns burned or his animals killed. It doesn't benefit the families huddled in their urban homes who have grenades thrown in the windows. Shells come through the roof, or Soldiers enter firing indiscriminately.It doesn't benefit the thousands stuck in refugee camps with little food, water, medical supplies or educational outlets for the children. It doesn't benefit the shop owners and venders who no longer can obtain their products to sell.
So who benefits? Could it be the people making and selling the side arms those soldiers carry. Could it be the people who make the single use bullets that are exchanged indiscriminately? Could it be the makers of the warships, and airplanes? Perhaps it's the makers of the drones that kill from afar and without warning? Or if the truth be known it's the bankers who finance both sides. People far removed from war and it's consequences. People who count the war as win/win because either the victors or the losers still have to pay for the weapons and bombs and death benefits of those who lose permanently  Maybe it's time to beat the swords and spears into plows and pruning hooks. Maybe it's time to make war on the bankers. to take the spoils of war from them. to make them serve a useful purpose like working to help the farmers who lost the crops and animals rebuild the farms. To care for the injured as orderlies. To rebuild the homes destroyed in the fighting. To pass out food and water to those in refugee camps. To serve indefinite detention like the enemy combatants. To clean the fields of unexploded ordnance. To serve on labor gangs cleaning up the DU, and chemical weapon residue. To serve as enemy combatants in indefinite detention in GITMO. then those who profit from the wars will serve a real purpose. In the meantime "I will fight no more forever."