A message from the Past for Israel and the USA.
"All the Dachaus must remain standing.
The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes - all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the earth into a graveyard, into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge, but worst of all their conscience. And the moment we forget this, the moment we cease to be haunted by its remembrance. Then we become the grave diggers."
~Rod Serling, from "Death's Head
Revisited" (1961)
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"Then we become the grave diggers."
Neither Israel nor my country, the USA, has any right to the moral high ground anymore. Like so many countries to come before them, Truth is lost in the delusions of grandeur and righteousness they created in their minds to replace any guilt for what they have done or are about to. They cloak their forced intrusions into other countries on specious patriotic claims like "National Security" or "Just defending an Ally"' or worst excuse ever, "We know better than you how you should run your country; Let us help you".
It's all Bullshit.
And one more time, because we lack the intestinal fortitude and willingness to compromise to find peaceful answers. We fool ourselves that lasting Peace can only be achieved at the point of a spear. Sure, we might win the battlefield, but we will never win the real Peace that comes from patient negotiations, thoughtful concerns and a willingness on both sides to reach a consensus. It is ever so much easier to blow each other up than do the hard work staring at each other across large tables and finding mutually beneficial conclusions. Lives are cheaper that talk. Fruitful conversations only seem to happen when one side has the other side on their knees.
I am no fan of the Israeli government, nor at the moment, my own government. Both are led by wannabe Dictators wearing cheap suits and long ties. Allowing these assholes to start another war is the most idiotic maneuver since, well, President Bush, the Lesser, got the USA involved in Iraq and Afghanistan. That particular party only took a few months before fooled ourselves into declaring the operation, "Mission Accomplished". Twenty years, and over 400,000 deaths later, we finally extracted ourselves from that historical snake pit of hate and discontent. And now we are back at it again. WTF!
It seems we just can't help ourselves. When the polls show a dip for the current asshole in charge, nothing deflects public focus like a military action of some kind somewhere else where only "Furriners" feel the pain.
We have become inured to media images and stories of the horrors of war. There is no real price to pay until a relative, a friend, or a friend's son or daughter comes home in a box or maybe worse, crippled and horribly disfigured for the rest of their lives. And even then, unless the pain is close, we sit back flipping channels and declare;
Both Israel and the USA are using contrived and dubious pretexts to justify attacking other countries. Yes, Iran is a bad actor. But how bad of an actor would they be if we had just let them run their country the way they wanted at the get go, back in 1979.
French philosopher Joseph de Maistre once wrote:
"Every country has the government they deserve".
No better examples exist than Israel, the United States and Iran. Three countries whose respective populations are allowing this kind of shit to continue. In this new era of outrageously contrived situations, nobody ever really wins in the long run.
Keep it 'Tween the Ditches ....................................
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Only one song came to mind for this post. "War Pigs" was written and recorded by Black Sabbath in 1970 on their album, "Paranoid" Along with classic Metal tunes like the title track, "Paranoid" and "Iron Man", Black Sabbath established themselves early as the Gods of Heavy Metal.
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