by G E Barr

Created on: June 14, 2010

War

"...Praise with elation, praise every morning/God's recreation of the new day...Morning has broken like the first morning..." -Cat Stevens

I was born in 1959 and as I grew into consciousness I was inundated with images of the horrors of the Vietnam war.  That war did not solve a higher issue.  It killed over 50,000 American soldiers, while others were humiliated with insults and political tugs of war. Many of those soldiers hailing from the most abusive homes imagineable.  While the white bread, well incorporated Wallies and Beavers were living the good American life, a certain kind of holocaust was going on.   It wasn't a good time to be a soldier.  However, as any realistic warrior knows, accolades for having done a good job and surviving don't always come.  Warriors become tough, expecting nothing, and less interested in the parades than the surviving.  Remembering what the war is all about in the first place.  If they even know themselves.

There is a time for war and a time for peace.  Both World Wars solved dangerous situations.  In one, the Japanese had gone off on some Napoleonic tangeant.  In the other, it was the Germans.  And based on what was going on in Germany from 1933 to 1945, I think war was necessary.  A psychotic bastard intent on destroying an entire race of people, who has the support of his country, is requesting war.  That's a real basic global rule.

The psychological reaction to violence in people varies.  Some become suicidal.  Others become homicidal.  Still yet others keep perspective and react rationally.  However, there's no sprucing up war.  It is just an awful thing. 

America has committed her fair share of attrocities, no doubt.  War has really never solved anything except a measure of peace in it's aftermath.  A reorganization of power.  But I in no way believe that it brings democratic angels capable of providing the sort of leadership which spawns a glowing democracy. 

Interestingly, it was a Japanese architectural designer, Minoru Yamasaki in the early 1960s who spawned the Twin Towers in NYC.  War brings about these situations.  Japanese architects designing wonderful buildings in America.  The desire for war brings about the destruction of such wonderful buildings.  In September, 2001, we got to glimpse, via our televisions, just what happens when we naively believe that everybody wants to be our friends.

Here we are, nine bloody years later, and what we thought was "war", is becoming a way of life.  Iraq still bleeds too frequently for me to believe that any good's been done there. 

While I am historically curious about Persians, I'm not so interested in brain damaged freaks who thrive on the frequent annhilation of the human body.  I'm completely against Islam.  I think it is the most violent and unevolved religion imaginable.  Completely unacceptable.  With these people, death is the way of life.  Life has no sacred place for them.  There's no graceful gray area.  Just the cut and dried, black and white of death.

I think a really good war could solve their problem.  If you know what I mean.

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