Dear Pentagon

Human Wrongs Watch By Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service*

10 Oct 2024 – As someone on the Pentagon’s mailing list, I was recently sent a question:

‘How do you think the Pentagon is faring and what suggestions do you have to improve our performance?

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My reply:

Dear Pentagon,

For those who love wars, watching the death of millions of innocent people of all ages killed by bullets, landmines, grenades, bombs, ballistic and cruise missiles, torpedoes and laser beams, the Pentagon is doing fantastically well!

For those who don’t mind the 120 million people the War industry forced, since the end of WWII, abandon their homes to avoid and early death, the Pentagon is their model organization. 

For those who like to watch tanks, rocket launchers and interceptors, bombing helicopters and drones, air fighters and warships launching their projectiles, see them explode, kill and maim, destroy buildings and nature, pollute our lands, seas and the air we breathe, the Pentagon is doing a great job.

For those who admire people making money out of the above-described fighting, slaughter, genocide and destruction while their country’s economy suffers an ever increasing deficit, the Pentagon must be their ideal institution.

For those who love life, humanity, Nature, and wish to see our planet last for many future generations, the Pentagon is doing a terrible job.

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*Alberto Portugheis is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment. By profession a concert pianist and pedagogue, he is an active peace campaigner, whose anti-military stance earned him a nomination for the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize. As a result, Portugheis wrote Dear Ahed…..The Game of War and a Path to Peace – a book that has received critical acclaim. 

Another successful book followed: $$$$$s In Their Hearts. In 2015 he founded the Movement HUFUD-Humanity United For Universal Demilitarisation, which has many followers worldwide.

  In 2018 HUFUD Latin America was born, based in Bogotá, Colombia and in 2020 HUFUD Africa was launched, based in Uganda. 

In Portugheis’ writings, speeches, thoughts, ideas and reflections transpire his desire “to make people think” and not take for granted what they read or hear, “no matter where.”

*This article originally appeared on Transcend Media Service (TMS) on 14 Oct 2024: TMS: Dear Pentagon 2024 Human Wrongs Watch

Source: https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2024/10/15/dear-pentagon/