I never demean people by pegging them as black or white, but regarding the war department in a war economy, the military has the upper hand with their black powder. By the way black symbolically refers to evil and negativity such as scary, deadly and depressive in western countries. White, especially white feathers or pale faces, symbolize fear and cowardice, as witnessed with American Indians. However, Caucasians envision themselves as soap–pure and clean.
Dear Ones,
Often human beings are unaware of these deep-rooted psychological connotations hiding subliminally within our psychs, such as a woman saying, "I'm not a bigot. I treat blacks and whites alike." The fact that she transparently used words of rival polarity reveals her prejudice.
When President Obama stated he was against war in the Middle East and when he recently said American soldiers will not have boots on the ground, he meant it. However, military mission creep is forcing tax payers to cough up more than five billion dollars for 1,500 new troops on the ground for "training" purposes. War from the beginning has been a charade of religio-politics with the naive still piously praying for peace in corporate world war economies–the dichotomy of the centuries.
Incidentally, explosive military training means programming and conditioning soldiers to hatred and anger against the opposition. Among US wars against Asian people, soldiers were trained to label human beings as "gooks" or "japs" to dehumanize them and make them easier to kill.
Militant mentality thinks war victory is its best tour de force and strength while bereaved families believe the opposite as they live in anguish over their children who die and are crippled for life in the same sham victories for power, control and natural-resourse spoils of war. This black powder contest is fixated on opposing religious nations–in war, skirmishes and single suicide bombers.
The military is obviously more powerful than the chief of the war department. The president is is trying to avoid inevitable deaths and casualties of war. He respects inherent human rights. It's not the rubber boots that are the problem. Its human flesh–arms and legs blown off in the theater of war–the theater of arms and the macabre.
When Mark Twain was shocked by all the gore and slaughter of a Civil War battlefield, he was out of there!–and lived to become one of the most influential satirists in the world. This is not a recommendation but instead a fact of history. Self-preservation is a human trait that is squelched by war training to sacrifice young soldiers' lives so that non-combatants can live in peace and luxury.
All the propaganda of glory and honor supporting black powder wars comes from militant minds paid to commit wars in the false name of defense. Civil wars among backward rival religious tribes killing one another in turf wars feed on black powder. So far peace has never been waged, only the commitment of war. Since a government department calls itself a defense department, why did 9-ll have happened? It's called surprise. It's impossible to stop unforeseen attack among the masses, especially with suicide bombers–no matter how much a nation is stockpiled with toxic ammo.
The best method of real defense in a rival religious world is secular unbiased world education starting in kindergarten where children are taught to respect life in all its forms–human beings and animals. It is so sad to see courageous soldiers coming home broken in spirit and body. And now with US combat troops doubled, the deaths and casualties could be manifold.
Once the camel gets its nose in the tent, he's in like Flynn. Military mission creep will escalate faster than lava from a volcanic eruptions. The biblical word "mission" is religious deception. It was first used in 1595 when the church militant sent Jesuit missionaries to cruelly force American Indians into submission. Their inherent spiritualism was oppressed and their culture devastated as black robes posing as messengers "from God" punished and tortured them while at the same time destroying their arts.
Trained troops training others become targets themselves within their own bases. I remember the tragedy within my home town when a company of soldiers purifying water in Iraq were hit by a nuclear missile that wiped most of them out. The very presence of troops often forces them to defend themselves. Leadership training starts out innocuously but invariably ends up as terrorism.
Historically, when one branch of the Semitic Abraham religion attempts to massacre another branch, the entire tree ends up with dead leaves. Fundamentalist wars are the bane of the world ever since man invented gun powder that has escalated to massive power of extermination and genocide.
Religious wars are defenseless as brave youths take the brunt of aggression and often do not make it home–with their loved ones grieving life times in silence.
Mame,
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