War is stupid

U.S. role shameful. War is the dumbest thing in the world. Only arrogant and perverted people start wars. Unfortunately for America, our president is an incompetent simpleton devoid of common sense.Anybody in the world watching the devastation of Lebanon on television should be ashamed of America. Our Republican politicians refuse to obey our Constitution. Fearing a loss of power to Democrats in upcoming national elections, they rushed Israel into war ahead of schedule, turned loose neoconservative war-monger journalists, put all rabid ex-military civilian pundits on alert and threatened Iraq, Iran and Israel itself.Our government has been totally corrupted. America has been made helpless. The faces of children and grandmothers must save our sanity. Life must be sacred. Herb Stickle, Margate - Published in the Atlantic City Press, August 6, 2006