THE THEATER OF WAR
–Endless War Economy
Draconian, satanic combat
fuels international theater of war, as its choking greenhouse emissions smother
Earth on land, sea and air. War
departments are dependant on war economies versus peace defense–the sharper the
weapon, the more grotesque the blow back. Revenge keeps wars in circles of
fire.
Genocidal ammo genetically
deadly in the DNA aborts and deforms babies the world over, especially among
soldiers handling toxic, irradiated munitions. So let's keep shooting ourselves
in the foot as we dance the steps that take us to war!
Dear ones, war that is the
world's grossest gas-guzzler and serial killer fuels all the evils in
Pondoras's Box. Because combat soldiers and others suffer from mental anguish,
traumatic stress and brain damage from explosions, the Pentagon produced a
film, The Theater of War, in 2008
during the George W. Bush administration that escalated an illicit war with
blanket-bomb slaughter mostly non-combatants, such as the tragedy of Fallujah, Iraq.
If this contrived movie of
ancient Greco-Roman warfare was as successful as the military proclaimed, why
are war-torn, wounded warriors, physically and mentally scarred for life, as
suicides among them increased even more than ever before–now number one
killer in the U.S.?
Another Pentagon
"Patriots" movie also produced under the Bush administration in 2008
at the cost of untold millions of dollars forced on taxpayers was an
extravaganza under the roar of war marches.
I witnessed this obscenity in
the old Civic Arena in Pittsburgh.
War propaganda was literally
flying around with paratroopers in parachutes dropping by ropes from the
ceiling among tanks, war machines and helicopters. This machismo propaganda was
like the cirque du soleil on steroids and testosterone–all aflame in red, white
and blue fireworks–my country right or wrong–might is right versus President
Lincoln's right is might.
This outlandish display of
khaki camouflage netting and recruiters tool place outside and inside, with soldiers
told to hand out colored brochures
for young people to become combatants.
This farce was produced all over the U.S. with enough flag waving to
start a tsunami.
The "entertainment"
was staged to support uncivilized Bush wars in the Cradle of Civilization–Mesopotamia. Combat soldiers have seen the elephant.
They know what war is. It's about
being maimed for life and having your best buddies killed. Veterans come together in camaraderie
to overcome the feeling of being alone in suffering from war.
Instead of propaganda from the
Pentagon, these astute war soldiers have formed their own anti-war groups who
help combat soldiers cope with war distress and trauma.
If a movie portrays war
honestly non-combatants will especially wake up without needing an alarm clock.
War veterans now have a very affective way to counteract the theater of war
that made them victims–veterans against war. I have talked with many of them while playing a fife in
Veterans' Day parades for decades–with many fife and drummers being veterans
themselves.
Corporate government funding
is quintessential to cover needs for healing mentally and physically through
professional medical and psychological consultants as well as employment for
the aftermath turmoil of aggression–more important than costly films to put war
poverty in a good light.
The real drama in the theater
of war is set on a stage of many actors, starting with those calling for war
and federal industrial war corporations producing the lethal ammo.
The government in all its
branches makes the rules of war with flag-waving patriots in ra-ra rhetoric, as
the bully pulpit on every street corner wraps its doors and alters in bunting
while its masters of war hear voices saying, "This I do in God's
name."
And above and beyond, there
are also those giving perks to keep wars moving onward, a help with recruiting
as well. Nurses, doctors without
borders trying to save young people in the throes of war, as well as those in
other humane careers helping people aren't treated with the same respect.
There is another drama written
about the theater of war, an epic first introduced in 1939, but rarely seen in
the United States. This became the most popular anti-war production of its
time. In 1996 this play, Mother
Courage and Her Children, was produced
again. The playwright, Bertolt Brecht, wrote this drama while in exile from
Nazi Germany to portray the devastation and blindness of wars and how people
profit from them.
Mother Courage, portrayed by
Meryl Streep, takes advantage of naive young soldiers and reveals atrocities of
older mercenaries. The plot is drawn from the Thirty Years War (1618-1648)
fought over rival religion between the Roman Catholic Church and the protesting
Protestants.
Brain manipulating war video
games also produced by the war department, its original name, to recruit
soldiers and practice skills of shooting, comes with WARNINGS on their
labels–"may alter the minds of those playing the games"–as gun
violence is subliminally programmed into young minds.
Albert Einstein wrote,
"It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but
murder." But in the theater
of any war, the characters that are the real killers are not youths slaying others
youths–ingrained programming to kill.
Combat soldiers who used to
fight on ancient battlefield alters of sacrifice now fight on urban street war
zones where children and non-combatants are killed–illegal violations of
International Law. Service men now
must also endure little kids and babies dying, what compounds their suffering,
often overlooked in praise of war.
Einstein also wrote, "I'm
not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. The pioneers of a warless world are the young people who
refuse military service."
But again, in the theater and
game of war it's not brave young soldiers sacrificing their lives that are
fault. War committers out of harms
way train and condition youths to kill. Military troops are pons of politicians
who have never experienced maddening aggression on the checkerboard of war.
The Bush administration also
started a widespread system of unmanned drones that kill non-combatants while
targeting those for assassination. Now this new branch in military aggression
is ingrained. Once the olive is
out of the jar, the rest come out more easily. Any war device is almost
impossible to remove once it is
initiated. When the camel gets its
nose into the flap of the tent, it's in like Flynn.
But behind the curtain, off
stage, all adults are the offenders funding international theaters of
wars. Without taxpayer money, the
word war would be alien to the world.
So, in war's final hour with
Earth succumbing from contaminated waterways and polluted air, we are compelled
to pull the curtain down, our only way to survive ongoing Earth-destroying
aggression in the theater of war, with the price of the ticket Pyrrhic–not
worst its cost.
Mame
www.macdonaldsward.com
