{"id":276860,"date":"2024-10-14T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=276860"},"modified":"2025-01-10T15:05:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:05:49","slug":"dear-pentagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/10\/dear-pentagon\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Pentagon"},"content":{"rendered":"

10 Oct 2024 –<\/em> As someone on the Pentagon’s mailing list, I was recently sent a question:<\/p>\n

‘How do you think the Pentagon is faring and what suggestions do you have to improve our performance?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My reply:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear Pentagon,<\/em><\/p>\n

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!<\/em><\/p>\n

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.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/em><\/p>\n

______________________________________________<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Alberto Portugheis is a member of the <\/span><\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>. By profession a <\/span><\/em>concert pianist and pedagogue<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>,\u00a0he\u00a0is an\u00a0active peace campaigner, whose anti-military stance earned him\u00a0a nomination\u00a0for the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize.\u00a0As a result,\u00a0Portugheis wrote\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Dear Ahed\u2026..The Game of War and a Path to Peace\u00a0<\/span>\u2013 a book that has received <\/span><\/em>critical acclaim<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>.\u00a0 Another successful book followed: <\/span><\/em>$$$$$s In Their Hearts<\/span>. In 2015 he founded the Movement <\/span><\/em>HUFUD-Humanity United For Universal Demilitarisation<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>, <\/span>which has many followers worldwide.\u00a0 <\/span><\/em>In 2018 HUFUD Latin America was born, based in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia and in 2020 HUFUD Africa was launched, based in Uganda.\u00a0 In Portugheis\u2019 writings, speeches, thoughts, ideas\u00a0and reflections transpire his desire \u201cto make people think\u201d and not take for granted what they read or hear, \u201cno matter where.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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