With all the declared wars on drugs, poverty, illiteracy, pollution, obesity, etc. Have any of these wars been met with success? What definition of victory do we have to go by? How about the War on Terror? Does anyone see an end to that? Is there any true way to define victory against terrorism? Is that a real possibility? Do the institutions that build up around these platforms truly perform with victory in mind? And if not, do these institutions ever really go away due to their inability to produce positive results? Should they not in the least be created in limited tenure as to their duty to resolve the indicated issues they proclaim to fight? Or do they just become another permanent agency or bureau, another tentacle of the government which eventually ends up controlling nearly every part of the private lives in every community?
On the subject of warfare.Today, in the so-called modern civilized world, the threat of lives lost ought to prevent wars in the first place, no? Let alone the amount of money it costs to fight these wars. Have we not evolved past a point where our egos irrationally and uncontrollably misguide our actions?
Here’s the fundamental question I would like to present to those who feel some sense of a real or manufactured patriotic duty contrived by the messages we get from the mainstream media tools of government, messages to justify our support and participation in physical warfare, real warfare that cost lives: Do you think our leaders consider the true cost of warfare in the end? Do we consider the ultimate cost? Not only the lives lost, but think about how much money it costs to fight a war. Couldn’t the billions, and today, trillions of dollars spent on warfare go toward the real problems humanity faces? You know, the ongoing problems of the human condition that create acts of war to begin with?
Funny how we are to not supposed to protect ourselves here at home in nearly any conceivable way, physically, economically, spiritually. Let the “authorities” handle it we hear. And yet these “authorities” send our children hunting for monsters in every oily part of the world. Funny…those not required to go into battle sending others to die for their cause…interesting concept.
Maybe we ought to concentrate more on what we have to deal with in our own lands, our own communities and our own families, instead of invading foreign lands. Have we not done enough damage?
Me and my big mouth again…asking all these silly questions.
See my other article “Tsunamis of Taxation, Inflation and Subjugation”.
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