Ancient problems

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War is a temporary thing.  I have mentioned this before that wars should be short like an exploding of fireworks but there's more to that.  Soldiers are dark individuals.  Their jobs are contrary to those of teachers.  Teachers think.  Politicians think less.  Soldiers don't think.  It's something that Patricles said in the movie Troy.  He was talking to Achilles and wondering why he was in disagreement with Agammemnon who like most politicians, have half of their heart with the people, the other half in what he can take.  And that leads me to another movie, 300, where the King says before the battle, "give them nothing, but take from them, everything!" Soldiers are the ultimate takers.  Their jobs are NOT to think about what is right or what path to go on or how best to position everyone.  Their jobs are to explode things.  Their jobs are to "hammer" nails.  

Soldiers obey.  

That's what Patricles said to Achilles who was bereft and confused because he was halfway from ceasing being a soldier to becoming a politician or maybe a philosopher/teacher.  But um, "never the Twain shall meet" as the old saying goes, because soldiers are NOT good politicians.  They become great politicians perhaps but then that makes them not very good soldiers.  

I am thinking of McCain at this point.  You might even want to think about Colin Powell maybe.  

Bergdahl for example, is the result of a long war.  Deserters are the result of a long war.  I'm not saying he deserted or not, I'm saying there's more time to think about what you are doing after months in a hole.  And instead of piping out that ammo and exploding this or that base and then the next, time to think makes you wonder WHY it's taking so long to find the next base that you should be exploding.  

It's not hard.  

And that's what regular Americans should be worried about is a complicated war.  Because there is NO complicatedness in war.  We go, we take it over, we put our leaders in, set up a base, wait for people to get tired of us being there, then we leave.  Anything less than that, is politicians trying to take.  

War is by nature a lack of order.  Sometimes it is said that "war is a necessity".  That's a lie.  Lying is war.  If someone is attacking you, you lie.  Leaders lie.  The victims lie.  All truth is lost in war.  War is hell.  

That's why it must be short, it must be as clear as possible, and everyone should be getting promoted and pregnant... because you either lived or died but it is soon over.  Anything less than that, like say Syria, or Israel, or Iraq... is people in charge of FLINGING other people's asses into a pit.  That's right!  Anything "organized" about war is pure human sacrifice.  The only thing left to do is to dig a hole and have everyone LOOK at the bodies to make them feel bad because anything less is as big a LIE as you can imagine.  

Ok, so you see how I'm not caring about war.  

The civil war was like this.  A long drawn out war meant to stop slavery.  It's not clear why they were fighting however until you "empathize".  Why couldn't the Southerners SEE that slavery was wrong?  Well, for the same reason people today can't see that drugs, that buying drugs, that allowing the money that is made from buying drugs to go into Mexico and other countries... is wrong.  They allowed slavery to go on for so LONG that the people making money from it "claimed" it was right much like is happening now with illegal aliens.  The same thing is happening now with drugs.  People EVERYWHERE are just understanding it less and less and legalizing it and progressing towards a day when it's legal everywhere.  But we still need to be prescribing it right?  WAY BACK HERE is what normal is.  We still might allow people to grow their own medicine/pot and maybe make their own beer and yet we need to make it to where it is safe.  Why couldn't they do that to slavery?  Why couldn't we just give slaves a maximum of 20 years service(one generation) then make it 10 years then make it a 1 year max per slave per owner then simply progress it to a money thing where each slave could one day pay themselves out?  Why?  Because southern rich people "claimed" it had become too normal.  

The same thing is happening to drugs.  The same thing is happening to illegal immigrants.  The country is becoming unraveled. It sounds like a crisis but it's happened before.

Unlike gay people wanting to get married, these are ancient problems, lol.  There has always been alcohol and drunkeness.  There has always been a "horde" of refugees outside of every civilized city or state that eventually plots to plunder the city rather than grow their own.  There has perhaps always been gayness.  But how to deal with them, is written in history, over and over, and what we can expect is more of the same.  

So what should we do? 

Well, the answer to all of our problems is to understand it, publicly(aka. Twitter/Facebook), not letting politicians do a soldiers' work, by trying to "diplomatically" solve wars, not letting teachers do a soldiers' work by philosophizing IF war is needed, and not letting soldiers do a politicians' or a teachers' job by keeping them out there too long.  

If we get attacked, POOF, war's over, what the hell just happened and how much did it cost?  That's what war should be, not "can we USE this somehow?"

That's why I like Jeb Bush.  It has mostly a lot to do with my father who I devote myself to since... well, it doesn't matter; who's in charge matters and whether he can successfully lie to us MORE than half the time matters and I doubt Jeb can do that.  In fact, part of me romanticizes the part about his "stain of blood" that he perhaps needs to wash clean perhaps by WASHING out some leaders that seriously need washing.  Remember that episode on TNG?  Picard has to stop the Cardassians from taking over a human camp early before they they are allowed to leave.  The humans refuse to leave however and soon after, the humans spy them and find out that their intention is to forcibly remove the humans if they don't leave.  So the humans confront the Cardassians and they tell Picard to find a way to allow them to stay, despite a treaty that makes the land Cardassian land.  Soon after, a small little war breaks out.  

Picard is told by one of the humans' elders that he has a "stain of blood" because another Picard, an ancestor, was responsible for removing FORCIBLY another society, an Indian society, from land that was theirs.  

It's one of my favorite episodes because in that episode I am Wesley.  I am trying to stop ALL WARS and to do that he freezes time, much like a Meteor would do, and he has to decide if he will start time again.  I can still remember my heart breaking that first time I saw this scene, wishing that war would not be necessary, wishing people could work things out diplomatically.  

But the voice of his Wesley's elder soon walks in and reveals himself to be the traveler and then explains things.  War happens.  People must be allowed to respond how each of them see fit.  It's called freedom.  You can't choose for others.  It's wrong, but it's right.  

Soon Wesley starts up time again; a bunch of people are stunned and phaser-burned; and, over the next couple of days, people AGREE to be slaves just for the sake of staying where they are... 

recurring theme yeah?  

So don't think that the confederate flag needs to be taken down.  The war was about money.  These people lost and were allowed to keep their colors and pride.  These families, with money if you notice, despite their losses were allowed to maintain their pride.  One youngster's rantings about supremacy doesn't rewrite history.  In fact, the flag serves as a reminder of history and if WE(part of the country that doesn't live there meaning US and not them, right?) all aren't going to live there, well, we have about as much right to pull that flag as we have pulling out the flag of Japan.  

PS. Oh and one more thing(arrgh, one word mispelled).  Journalists are the nemesis of politicians.  Politicians think half of the time then take.  Journalists do the same thing, but like as a reflection of what politicians do.  In reality, journalists perhaps need to have a more official standing in government, not just a shame feature like Brian Williams, but more serious aftershocks for lying to the public, if they are to be sufficient to the cause of keeping politicians honest.  Hmmf, that sounds weird and I'm sure it's a bad idea but there it is.  Maybe the media should work for law enforcement, perhaps even sources and "anonymous" people who point out criminals engaged in ongoing illegality could have a spot out there officially where journalists are not SPIED on by government.  Well, they should be spied on, but not harassed is all I'm saying.  What?  They're the same thing?  Who knew?