Originally posted by dooper
reply to post by SpartanKingLeonidas
To drag out a conflict by following rules is to extend the length of the conflict, affect many, many more civilians, inflict many, many more
casualties, and continue the suffering on both sides.
I know it's just my opinion, but to be most merciful, one must be most ruthless.
And it doesn't matter who's writing your checks.
I fully understand the expediency of trying to save lives but at what cost?
The cost of losing all humanity?
Yes, war is in fact about saving lives, through taking them, the other sides lives.
Yes, the Geneva Convention is not heeded by the enemy, most often than not it is seen as a huge joke to them and they would laugh at you for reciting
it if you were strapped down to the table and you were uttering it as a defense of your torture, but if we step away from rules first, or we step away
from them at all then we are in fact no better than them, and the hypocrisy of politicians is just another sound byte that is a lie to sell to the
citizens.
While I can understand the mercy through ruthlessness comment you made, I cannot agree, sometimes dropping a nuclear bomb and wiping out the entire
region would be the most expedient, but then again the nuclear fallout and radiation would make the land inhospitable and uninhabitable, but then
again that would not matter one iota if it were not for the fact that the war machine, the military industrial complex, Department of Defense and
Pentagon, and the men making money would have a problem with that because their dainty little profits would be lost to the silent killer of radiation
poisoning.
It doesn't matter who cuts the checks?
Really?
I would have a problem myself if I had a check cut to me by
Saddam Hussein.
I would have a problem myself if I had a check cut to me by
Hugo Chavez.
I would have a problem myself if I had a check cut to me by
Vladimir Putin.
I would have a problem myself if I had a check cut to me by
Kim Jong Il.
I would have a problem myself if I had a check cut to me by
Khmer Rouge.
I do believe you meant your comment innocently enough, I am not misunderstanding it.
I only see war as a profit-making endeavor anymore.
It is not about stopping conflicts but about getting them covertly started for big brother to step in and stop them through whatever means necessary,
but then again this fits perfectly for the duplicitous bastards in Washington D.C. who would lie through the political think-tank
Project for the New American Century in order to get us embroiled and enshrouded in a needless war,
costing us trillions in deficit, getting soldiers killed needlessly, for oil, not democracy, because when it boils down to the thick of it, the
politicians do not give a damn about the Middle East, other than for the oil they can find there and the Sheik's, Mullah's, and Al Saud family and
how they can suck them dry of their money.
It is pure manipulation of the system through deniability and the mercenaries are only carrying out the orders as a part of the process and the sheer
stupid bull moose's who are imparting the ability for the politicians to cover up their crimes, atrocities, and theft of resources, and then shove a
huge bill up the tax-payers backsides, both through taxes, as well as at the gas pump.
I respect you, dooper, I do, but I do not respect the politicians, the wars, nor the needless violence.
I considered briefly becoming a mercenary, back as a teenager, it was a dead serious consideration of mine, and I would have stepped through that if I
had known how at the time, but not knowing who to talk to and not having been taken serious are the only two things that stopped me, and I am glad of
it now because I see I would have lost my humanity and lost my soul in becoming a hired murderer, an assassin if you will, cashing in a paycheck for
war's that are neither necessary nor wanted by either side.
Yes, there may be some necessity for war, at times, but not all the time.
The problem is that the military industrial complex will go bankrupt completely if war is not happening on a continual basis, and the arms
manufacturers would go belly up, the manufacturers of the Hummer's, tanks, jets, weapons, etc would literally fall down and go boom on the emptiness
of not being needed and zero cash-flow.
Soldiers, I can respect, wars for a need I can respect, but when war becomes McDonalds franchised, licensed out to killers in suits hiding behind
their pimps at the Pentagon, it is in fact nothing but the whores of war.
I noticed you bypassed speaking about my previous comments on the
Golden Triangle, the
Golden Crescent, and human trafficking
altogether.
[edit on 20-10-2009 by SpartanKingLeonidas]
