Yesterday, on my way home from work, I was behind a car with a bumper sticker that read, "Freedom isn't Free."

I believe the message behind this bumper sticker is that we should honor those who are and have served in the military for laying down their lives or putting themselves in harms way during war and other political conflicts.

I suppose that's fine, and suppose it makes a quaint bumper sticker, but I think I would have felt better had the sticker been on a car from 1943. Seeing it on this car however, made me wish that it also mentioned these things about the cost of American freedom today:

1-It involves attacking and threatening to attack people we presume are our enemies.
2-It means killing civilians.
3-It requires the oppression of those who do not share our global vision.
4-Those enlisted in our wars are most often fighting on behalf of causes that were thought up by people whom they do not know.

But I suppose if the sticker said all that, the font would have been so small that I would have rear-ended them.

On my way to work this morning, a song came on the radio that made my point much more concisely. I believe it went:

I said, war, huh,
Good God, y'all.
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing.

Okay. I'm done ranting.