You can never have enough...

[Lilith7]

Listen to this Lilith7, try to follow the lyrics as the song is playing.

This is the feeling of the Middle East, trust girted artistes, they are able to transport you to a time and place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NlfYpZ6Aqc

https://genius.com/Patti-smith-where-duty-calls-lyrics

Song is dedicated to american soldiers killed by a terrorist attack in Beirut, Lebanon in 1983. (Spence Rudden 2007: 45)
-This was written in memory of those who lost their lives in the
Destruction of the First Battalion, 8th Marine Headquarters, Beirut, October 23, 1983. Two hundred and forty-one marines, sailors, and
Soldiers on a peacekeeping mission perished with their assassin

And once again, the idocy of our species is confirmed. Exactly as it was for Kiwis in WW1 & WW2, going off to have an adventure with their mates & see the world. They wouldn't be killed, maybe a scratch or two but not killed. Not them.


Another in a similar vein.

Buffy St Marie
The war racket

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzG_4e8yGew

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They're bombing weapons supplies etc of the ousted regime to prevent abandoned weapons, machinery falling into unknown possible enemy hands.

So they say. I say it's terrorism. Intergenerational trauma making victimes into monsters.

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And the allies who got together to solve the Jewish problem by creating a homeland smack bang in the lands of an already established population have no responsibility for the results? Other than to profit from the arms industry profits, and internal financial investment their economies rely on.

Wars are not inevitable. They are prosecuted because someone benefits. They stop when the costs come back to bite those prosecuting them. And that is never the ordinary citizens. Never the women and children, the seniors. Never the doctors and aid workers and journos. Not even the soldiers. And thanks to the science of epigenetics we now know how these scars travel down the generations and pollute the lives of the future yet unborn children. Sins of the fathers, to carry on that bliblical reference.

But still we stand by and let the monsters pursue their agendas. Madness indeed.

The arms manufacturers do quite well out of wars. And the undertakers. And the uniform makers, the equipment makers, every last little thing needed in order for some to go & kill others.
And we'll hear what heroes they are, be told how brave they were, saving each other.


But then sometimes, we hear other things too. I remember very well hearing about My Lai, in Vietnam. For some reason that one stayed with me, & that little girl running down the road after being burned with napalm.

Other things too though; the football game during WW1 between German & English troops. The 'high command' were none too keen on that because they thought it might undermine fighting spirit"...fair enough, most of us can understand how you might not be all that keen to kill people you'd just played footy with.

We are indeed idiots...