Agent Orange was a chemical used during the war in Vietnam, some fifty years ago. The Americans used this stuff, which contains dioxin, one of the most terrible toxins we know, to throw it over the woods of Vietnam so that they could find the people, ‘the enemy’, who were hiding there. This toxin left nothing but bare fields, all the trees and other vegetation were dead. But these are aren’t even the worst effects of this horrible practice, the toxin also does something to people:
‘Dioxin is a virtual ‘genetic time bomb’: once it has entered the body, it may cause any number of birth defects in the children of those exposed, ranging from stillbirth or infant death to mental retardation or physical deformity.’ [source]
People who were exposed to Agent Orange will have to suffer for the rest of their lives. Children who are born, without having anything to do with a war that took place over fifty years ago, have defects that will affect their lives. Children are born blind, with missing limbs or are dead, even before they’re born. What did they have to do with the troubles of communism, the war of Johnson or even the Vietcong warriors that hid in the woods? Why do they have to suffer because of other people’s useless wars?
The American soldiers who had to cope with the effects of Agent Orange started a lawsuit and received tons of money to compensate them for their disabilities. Nobody has given a penny to the children in Vietnam, who are born with the same defects that will affect their lives even more than the lives of wealthy American veterans.
Am I the only who finds this unbelievable, ridiculous, outrageous even? It goes beyond words, there’s no name for it. Why do little children have to suffer, why do innocent people have to face the consequences of a war that they didn’t have anything to do with, everyday? Why do we bomb villages, why do we spray toxins on trees, why? For some noble cause, to keep the world from harm? No. To fight our stupid little wars, to get what we want, to not loose what we think is ours. Since when do politics consist of playing with people’s lives? Who ever told those people that their stupid principles are more important than the life of a five year old?
‘You are precious and honored in My sight, I love you.’
-Isaiah 43:3
Life is precious in God’s eyes. Nature and people are precious in God’s eyes. God loves it! Who are we, tell me, who are we, to destroy something that is precious in God’s eyes? Who are we to put our futile and meaningless ‘principles’ above the life that God finds precious?
Nobody, we are nobody.
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