Let’s Hear It For War and Oppression: An open letter to breast kneaders, hand wringers, bleaters and the intellectually stunted.

As the situation in Iraq slips inevitably into the postmodern Viet Nam it has become, and the dust motes of carbonised human settle, a loss of interest in the subject is increasingly evident. The "no war" window posters have become yellowed and spotted with fly manure, and the topic foremost in the minds of the “antis” shifts languidly on to the plight of Minke whales. or whatever. No longer “hot”, the war has slipped from the headlines, and, consequently their consciousness.

The fact is that the piggies who squeal loudest for some spurious notion of “humanity” (a noun, not an adjective) are the ones who, in truth, relish the military escapades of our government and its allies the most. They love it. They need it. It gives them the opportunity to occupy what they see as the moral high ground and to display their righteous indignation. Their appetite is always keen for, and will never be short of, nor sated by the “war porn” any international conflict inevitably results in: the child amputees, the screaming mothers… Dreadful, they sob… And look for the next media tidbit to satisfy their vicarious hunger for suffering.

These people quite simply do not have enough REAL pain in their own lives, and as a result seek to derive a foul, vampiric satisfaction from the anguish of others. Others whose pain is real. I wish them torture. Then they would know what it is to really care about the cessation of brutality.

“Not in my name” cry the peace piggies in their staggering self–importance... They march and even (for crying out loud) hold parties in protest at the war; an awful, awful orgiastic travesty of self-congratulation. They genuinely believe themselves to be the only right-minded, properly informed people on the planet, be they left wingers or the liberal humanists with dyed hair and leather jackets that pass themselves off as anarchists. Scum.

What these people must be made to understand is that war, not peace, is the natural state of man. War is without question the primary motivating force in history. War is as natural as the sun on your face.

War is the mother of invention and creation. The Orientals were, in pre Christian times the first to harness the explosive force of chemicals in order to fire a projectile and thus crucial to the invention of the internal combustion engine. War has taken us to the depths of the ocean through sub-marine technology, and into space with rocket science developed by scientists working for the Nazis and who were exported to the U.S. post war to work for NASA.

From the Teflon you cook your greasy breakfast on, to the dialysis machine (invented by the Danes in WW.1. in response to increased need for blood transfusions) that will keep your cholesterol soaked body alive, it is war, not peace that has enabled/motivated these leaps.
Purely from the point of view of population control, war is an absolute nescessity. Just consider what hell living in this city would be if all the men who died in W.W.1 had lived and had children? Four or five generations of them? Hell.

War holds the global economy in place, the arms industry being one of the few economic constants. Measured violence and oppression are the foundations of our “democracy”.
Thus, when considered as is, as a constant and a practicality, war is only wrong from the point of view that it still (and always shall) take place. The reason for this is a matter of incompletion, a result of previous wars not being conducted with absolute and total brutality. The last Gulf war, for instance should,(from the point of view of the U.S) have resulted in the annihilation of Islam as a world power, but it did not.

This is largely due to the misplaced notion that there can be any moral “comventions” to the conduct of war. America should represent a one world government by now, and any further conflict should then be a a redundant notion.

History is written in blood, and without any question, consists of an endless litany of war, conflict, ethnic cleansing and revolution. The fruits of which, we in the west enjoy freely.
Indeed, ”we sleep soundly in our beds, safe in the knowledge that dreadful men walk in the night and do dreadful things in our name” (George Orwell).

There is, never has been and never will be, ”peace”, except for the kind of peace you get in between being punched repeatedly in the face… The kind of peace you might get in a walled community in Beirut or L.A.

This is harmony, peace, in between exploding airliners. 9-11 gave Americans the opportunity to be what it always wanted to be; victims. Victim status.

Finally, war is demonstrably master and king of the absolute truth, from the source, of the righteousness and beauty of the harm done to the weak by the strong. There is, in my opinion, in evidence in the human species a direct correlation between an individuals worth and his/her capacity to react against that which oppresses.

This is the direct transference of the pure and vital force of violent motivation, without which nothing would be accomplished.

Let us admit to ourselves two things; that nothing ever really gets done on this Earth without somebody being prepared to kill for it,and that a “bad thing” is only a “bad thing” when it is happening to YOU.

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