“How many times can a man turn his head, pretending he just doesn’t see?”
What exactly is a war, and how long does it take to win one? Let’s look at a few examples in American history; I believe we’ll see an evolving pattern here. Here’s a very brief sketch:
• World War I — one year and seven months
• World War II — three years and seven months
Then we began to specialize in a new kind of war: one where we are mainly concerned about finding excuses to “invest” in the arms industry.
• Vietnam —19 years and five months
• Iraq/Afghanistan — 19 years and 10 months
Our outgoing president has said we will continue to fund Israel and the Ukraine for “as long as it takes.”
He didn’t make it plain. For as long as it takes to do what?
To see that our brains can be pummeled to the point that we will accept the most foreign things in nature as common sense and Godly?
To see that self defense demands the bombing of occupied homes and hospital beds?
To see that killing the new born is the only way to insure that they don’t grow up to be terrorists?
As a child, I was taught to believe that wars were all about armies facing each other over noble causes. Let me clarify that — “our” cause was always noble. No one ever mentioned it was all about funneling trillions of dollars to arms manufacturers.
The economy is literally “booming.” (Booming, bombing, it’s all the same.)
“Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.”
Dennis Shain
Centralia
