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WindWalker
Senior Member

since 2001-10-12

Posts 1218

0 posted 2008-06-19 08:02 PM

There are the simplistic reasons
(answers to the Big Question)
such as, war is Big Business,
and as long as someone makes a buck
from spewing out tanks, missiles and gunboats
“it” will continue to rage somewhere.

There’s patriotism
(yes, I know that’s a disease
but not everyone knows it
and some think it’s quite cute actually
to be a “patriot”. And what does that mean?
Well, it means you’re bound to fear and hate
anyone who doesn’t just love your country.
It’s just how it is, don’t ask why.

There’s those that worship the wrong God
and of course that’s a great sickness
that must be eradicated.
God himself says, hey, there’s only one way
to settle this once and for all: kill them all
and that’s one of the more pleasant tasks
of God’s followers.
(Well, there’s also the rape and pillage thing
but that’s another story.)

Then there’s those with wrong skin tones;
wrong languages, wrong political ideas,
wrong types of houses... How should I know?
They’re just wrong
and therefore, they have to be killed
‘cause if they’re not, they’ll never learn
now will they.

So, why do we fight - not just wars –
why do we fight at all?
How about this:
Just plain old-fashioned ignorance:
Dumb meets Dumber.

Ray Sharpe
Member

since 2008-05-29

Posts 112
Tenerife

1 posted 2008-06-19 08:06 PM

hear hear ......the sooner will ALL live together ...in peace ..the better!
Ray.

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2 posted 2008-06-19 08:24 PM

WindWalker,

That might seem to be the case now. Who knows. However, it wasn't the case in WW II. That was a case of simple survival. We were bombed—remember. I do. My hero Dad was part of it. I still have the flag that draped his coffin, along with his metals, all stashed carefully away in his U. S. Army duffel bag.

You can look at the current "engagements" as practice for the next "Big One" that will surely come.

Thank heavens FDR, and Harry S. Truman wern't whimps. We could have, and should have destroyed our enemy after 9-11.

Bobby

[This message has been edited by Robert E. Jordan (06-19-2008 10:56 PM).]

XGarapanX
Senior Member

since 2008-06-19

Posts 1435
Antarctica

3 posted 2008-06-19 10:28 PM

War, a sometimes necessary evil, but truly a bloody waste.

·´~`·»Garapan«·´~`·

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

4 posted 2008-06-21 07:33 PM

Ever since Nam [let alone this absurd mess in Iraq...in which our involvement had no serious/legitimate justification] I have been about as 'anti-war' as is humanly possible; however, I have to agree with Bobby...one of my dad's last details in W.W.II was to help march German folk from several towns and cities through the 'concentration' camps as ('eye-opening') "reality therapy" about Mr. Hitler. That megalomaniacal (grand curse on humanity of a) mad man HAD to be stopped [he and his henchmen also had definitive plans on the 'back shelf' for the invasion of N. America (after Germany and Japan adequately subjugated the rest of the world)] That 'world war' WAS a necessity...and the new 'great evil' on this planet... religio-nationalistic extremism may eventually force another such.

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