Lasting peace can never be achieved through violence.
Having bombed, maimed and murdered its way through Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Syria, Libya and Iran the US has the gullible stupidity to claim that it has acted for peace.
Not that the Arabs, Koreans or Vietnamese are any better. Not that any society is.
Trump is proud of his “achievements” it seems but then the man is a vain fool. As are his followers. His recent comments on Hiroshima emphasise the depths of the man’s crass ignorance and witless stupidity.
But of course he is merely the latest incarnation of man’s venal foolishness.
Remember 9/11? The Arab world has reason enough to hate the US, and yet our neighbours over the pond continue to make the same sad mistakes and were affronted and surprised when the people they had mistreated for decades blew up a couple of skyscrapers in New York.
And the Israelis – still living their Old Testament dreams it seems.
What a swine Yahweh was:
“Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.”
“God, isn’t god a shit” – as Randolph Churchill once said.
And now the whole world seems set on war, once again. How tedious. Build up your stock of deadly toys, recruit more cannon fodder. Invade and commit unspeakable horror everywhere you can. Take over Taiwan. Nuke the Russians. Crush the evil Chinese. Invade Canada, take over Greenland by force. Eradicate the Ukraine.
There are no good people in all this, just bloodthirsty baddies who haven’t worked out the lessons of the past. Perhaps these thugs are aiming for an afterlife in Valhalla. Who knows the depths of their depraved ignorance.
There are those who seem to like war and violence. The armies themselves. The dictators like Trump and Putin. The psychopaths and nutters. Make America Great Again. And Russia, China, Germany, North Korea….and so on as infinitum. Grab your neighbour’s minerals, water, gold and metals, precious earth. Erect tariff barriers, cripple them all, those beyond your gates, the barbarians at your doorstep.
What happened to the little Indian chap in the loincloth? A true hero, old Gandhi.
Surely we need more of those? Peaceniks, ban the bombers, tree-huggers, refuseniks, passive resisters.
More who will turn cheeks, smite motes, espouse modesty and reason.
Lay down your arms.
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