Essay On Government Conflict

When a government fails to heed the wants and desires of the people it claims to represent, it loses it's ability to act surprised in the face of public backlash. The US Government, a government that claims to get it's power from the people, has failed to heed the desires of the American people and they now face the backlash that comes with it.
For some twenty-odd years now, the US Government has saw fit to ignore the will of it's people and needlessly involve them in a conflict that the people have no desire to be a part of. The US Government has repeatedly lied to the American people for the sole purpose of furthering its entrenchment in this conflict. They lied to us about the Gulf of Tonkin, They lied to us about My Lai, they lied to us again and again in order to continue sending bodies to bleed out in …show more content…
We do not want to send our sons to go and die in the jungle, thousands of miles from home, just as they do not want to send their sons to die in the jungle either. The only ones who want this conflict are the corrupt and malicious people in office of both countries. Our soldiers, the unwilling, are being led by the unqualified, to kill the unfortunate, and to die for the ungrateful. The US government has shown its gratitude towards those that have done their duty by sending more and more of these poor souls into the meat grinder. There are people in this country who do not wish to bring wanton destruction and mayhem to poor peoples around the globe. There are people in this country who do not wish to ignore the will of the people. These are the people that should be brought forth on the ballot to pull this nation out of such a nasty, futile, and wasteful war. It will be ballots, not bullets that get us out of this mess. After all, aren’t bullets what got us into this in the first