Noli me vocare; non lo so

Sixty one years ago the US decided it was necessary to drop a second atomic bomb, this time on the city of Nagasaki. Four days earlier it had done the nasty to Hiroshima, and assumed (with no basis in fact) that it needed to use the second bomb to insure its victory. In truth, it dropped the second bomb because it was there to be dropped; they really had no alternative plan for what to do with it. We fight war to fight war, not to win them. War machines are self-perpetuating beasts, living solely to continue to do what they do, increasing the entropy into which they expand their ever on-going destructive nature. The US will never leave Iraq nor Afghanistan; we are already there, like the Nagasaki bomb.

It was reported that the US lost 26,000 AK-47's in Iraq, weapons that had been brought into the country ostensibly to arm the Iraqi "insecurity" forces. You don't lose 26,000 automatic assault rifles; you don't forget where they went or who picked them up. No, our military allowed them to be taken to prolong its own bathing and showering in massive wealth generating actions, designed to continue to fight a war that can never be allowed to end. The fear expressed by Bushco about the defeat of Lieberman is that the political voice of those opposed to continual war might gain sufficient notice by those raising their voices (Bushco fears that people will hear themselves and thus feel empowered) that this huge transfer of inordinate wealth maybe suddenly stopped.

Following the bombings in Japan, my father was charged with identifying and destroying the remaining Japanese ordinance and munitions. He discovered that well after the surrender, citizens were still involved in the production of these things, solely because that was all they knew to do to make their lives meaningful enough to continue to move forward. The US has achieved that same military mindset. We have activated the core elements of that systemic complex, producing weapons, that must be used, in order to produce more that must be used, and so forth, purely and simply because the very nature of the consciousness of the country is so configured. Eventually we must be stopped, be destroyed before we destroy the earth.