The works of angels and demons...
"But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness -- each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity."
--Herbert Butterfield
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron."
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
Finding myself in what is most often called the "third front" on America's war on terrorism, I often stop to ask myself am I really doing what is right?
After reading the proceedings from one of the latest tribunals, I'll throw the link at the end because the detainee oral statment at the end does make you think, and more specifically the previously mentioned statement I have to say that while I'm doing something that may not be totally sound morally or politically, that it is the nature of the beast and if I'm not on one side then I'd have to either be in the increasing neutral ground or on the opposing side. And while working for peace is admirable and certainly does its part to keep the major powers from blasting us back to the stone age, ultimately I feel that it is flawed. Perhaps humanity is meant to suffer with the dogs of war constantly at our heels or lurking in the wings at the next corner, but it is the way of humanity. Peace comes through victory over your enemy. Period. The crusade against war itself is a fight, though one fought with ideas and words instead of bullets, bombs, and tanks. But there will never be a lasting peace in this world. I whole heartedly believe that. The first quote says it all. There will always be those who say "I'm better than you, you listen to me." That is the beginning of all opression, even if things are better in the long run. But society is marked and shaped by the scars of war. Much of what we have and take for granted is a by product of war.
Is war good? By no means is it ever, but humanity has learned how to grow only through the scars associated with war. It will always be there with two sides doling out righteous fervor with death's outstretched arm proclaiming their side to be right the other wrong when in reality they are both right and wrong at the same time. The universal language of war is death and one day it will speak loudly enough that all will hear and fall slient before its voice. Until then I must play my part as both devil and angel helping to nail humanity to its cross of iron. It is a heavier burden than you think. So don't hate me or my brothers in arms. We aren't to blame though the blood runs thick on our hands. We mearly do as we're told because we haven't the luxury of words when the bullets fly. We play our part on this stage because someone has to fight. So we fight. And die.
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/transcript_ISN10024.pdf
--stefan
--Herbert Butterfield
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron."
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
Finding myself in what is most often called the "third front" on America's war on terrorism, I often stop to ask myself am I really doing what is right?
After reading the proceedings from one of the latest tribunals, I'll throw the link at the end because the detainee oral statment at the end does make you think, and more specifically the previously mentioned statement I have to say that while I'm doing something that may not be totally sound morally or politically, that it is the nature of the beast and if I'm not on one side then I'd have to either be in the increasing neutral ground or on the opposing side. And while working for peace is admirable and certainly does its part to keep the major powers from blasting us back to the stone age, ultimately I feel that it is flawed. Perhaps humanity is meant to suffer with the dogs of war constantly at our heels or lurking in the wings at the next corner, but it is the way of humanity. Peace comes through victory over your enemy. Period. The crusade against war itself is a fight, though one fought with ideas and words instead of bullets, bombs, and tanks. But there will never be a lasting peace in this world. I whole heartedly believe that. The first quote says it all. There will always be those who say "I'm better than you, you listen to me." That is the beginning of all opression, even if things are better in the long run. But society is marked and shaped by the scars of war. Much of what we have and take for granted is a by product of war.
Is war good? By no means is it ever, but humanity has learned how to grow only through the scars associated with war. It will always be there with two sides doling out righteous fervor with death's outstretched arm proclaiming their side to be right the other wrong when in reality they are both right and wrong at the same time. The universal language of war is death and one day it will speak loudly enough that all will hear and fall slient before its voice. Until then I must play my part as both devil and angel helping to nail humanity to its cross of iron. It is a heavier burden than you think. So don't hate me or my brothers in arms. We aren't to blame though the blood runs thick on our hands. We mearly do as we're told because we haven't the luxury of words when the bullets fly. We play our part on this stage because someone has to fight. So we fight. And die.
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/transcript_ISN10024.pdf
--stefan