What kind of a man does it take
to send another man to war to face certain death or indeed psychological trauma
from which he may never recover? From which he may lose so much of his sense of
self-worth, that he may one day, if not killed in the war itself, then decide
to take his own life (as has happened to so many war veterans over the years
like those from Vietnam and more recently, the Gulf War(s) (See links).
I think, it takes a complete
disassociation with basic human emotion, a complete abstraction from compassion
and above all, a complete personal denial that other men are human at all. Such
is the case with any war politician who can happily send his countrymen to war
justified by false or non -existent evidence. A contrived war, a manufactured
war, a war to last for over 10 or even 20 long years, or maybe even a
never-ending war to take the lives of the noble to serve some esoteric, yet far
from noble purpose.
I'm not talking about real wars
which serve to fight tyranny, dictatorship and oppression. I'm talking about
wars contrived for financial or political gain. Wars that serve no other
purpose than to fill the pockets of a small group of individuals or perhaps to
spread their political influence. To carry out such heinous acts really takes
someone who either cannot feel emotion at all or is emotionally dead, or
perhaps can feel emotion, but does not see his fellow man as a man at all,
but simply an expendable resource.
There are such people, whose
heritage breeds a separate race to us mere mortals. A race devoid of
understanding of what it is to be a man who loves his family and country and will
give his life for them, believing he is fighting for a just and noble cause. A
race that sees others outside its own select group to be simply fodder to feed
the war machine, a race that does not view those others as fellows of the same
kind and therefore feels nothing of their pain, for their pain does not exist,
cannot exist, as of course, they too must be emotionless. Like them, how could
anyone be any different?
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