War, what is it good for?

Yookoso!

“War, what is it good for. Absolutely nothing.”
In the realm of power, friends should be kept close and enemies even closer. Unless the enemy of the enemy is the enemy. And this is a lesson most tyrants, psychos, even some reasonable fellows fail to learn time and again.

Certainly Lybia’s Gaddafi like most charismatic, intelligent, and egocentric maniacs failed to swallow the rule of thumb that a proportionate reaction to any despot deeds is unavoidable. Soon or later any power-sicker-hitler-like-wanna-be gets to pay for any wrong doing because power dims reason, common sense, and unleashes the megalomania syndrome latent in many human beings. And power swaps brain cells for brainless.

But, unfortunately, the malaise is not exclusive of lunatics. We shall not forget that the sane has used countless times the same war tactics to wipe the crazy ones. We all should accept that even our heroes are cruel and mindless when in crusades to right the wrong.

And if anybody tells you, my two readers, it is a sin to equal psychopaths to beacons of justice, God forbids we do that. But please ask them to remember that the USA, in revenge for the close to 7,000 civilians killed on the World Trade Centre, may have killed already as many as 200,000 civilians.

Ask them to open their history books where is testify that, as a reaction for the 3,000 or more killed in Pearl Harbour, between 1944 and 1945 the USA burn down most big cities in Japan, so by the time they have the nuclear bomb ready only four cities were standing. And maybe because they have 2 nuclear bombs only they had to decide which of those cities to hit. So they went for Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing in the sum of raids around one million civilians. And this is history, not daydreaming.

The righteous should know that Christie Davis on the book ‘The Mirth of Nations’, Transaction Publisher, page 217, remind us that, “between 1942, and 1945 the RAF was destroying entire historic German cities and deliberately creating urban firestorms in which as many as 100,000 civilians might be killed in the course of a single night’s raid.”

And now the US maybe an acerb enemy of Lybia, but what about the official position in 2006, when Mr. G.W. Bush explicitly recognise Lybia as well behave. Or what to think of one of the axis of evil’s position, Iran, that supported openly a regimen change in Lybia, and called Islamic Awakening, -however they warned the Lybian people against a US backed occupation.

If we humans are to gain real freedom in modern times we should be able to compare tyrants work and good seekers’ work. We must be able to see that they use the same tactics brandishing different flags. And that at the end the winners are right because they win, and the losers are wrong because the lose. So we must understand both sides of the coin and maybe then we can say we learn a lesson.

Yes, we should not deny or ignore the suffer of people in conflicts, but we should not deny or ignore that the wrongdoers only go as far as the right doers think is profitable to let them go, because not always the friend of the friend is the friend.

And definitely “war, what is it good for. Absolutely nothing.’