TomDart opened this issue on Jun 29, 2004 ยท 18 posts
Charmz posted Fri, 09 July 2004 at 7:44 AM
Peace on earth, along with communism and the electric car are all beautiful concepts that look much better on paper than in fact. Everyone forgets to factor in the one huge mitigating circumstance. Human GREED. Everyone wants more, bigger, better, faster, more powerful toys. Ever notice how the powers that be only throw a war when the new soldier age generation has kinda forgotten about the horrors of the last? The young adults of today have glamourized the Vietnam era into something it never was. I was only a child during the end of that skirmish, but still remember some of the horrifying things that they reported on the news even during America's Pollyanna period of peace love and togetherness. Now people scream about the atrocity of the September 11 attacks, I must admit that I sat stunned in front of the radio myself. (don't watch much television anymore) But really people, now the U.S. knows how the rest of the friggin world feels on a nearly weekly basis. It happens everywhere, but Big Brother America seems to think that we are untouchable, unreachable, unbreakable. Somehow we have forgotten that in a battle there are no winners, only those who achieve "victory through superior fire power". Oops.. went off on a rant there. Reenactments, are a learning tool for our children. Sure at the end of the battle everyone gets up dusts off and goes home, but they do see that there is loss on every side. Am I anti-war? No, I cannot say that I did not say nuke them f***ers along with everyone else.