Revenge

Quote of the Day:

"I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time."
~ Senator Edward Kennedy quoted this passage from Aeschylus the Greek tragic poet ~
in testimony before the Commission on Campus Unrest, July 15, 1970. - Congressional Record, vol. 116, p. 24309.


Have you ever seen the movie "The Patriot"? The protagonist, having fought in the French and Indian war, decides not to join the newly formed Continental Army. He is not a pacifist but sick of killing and carnage and wishes to live his life in peace. When one son is killed and another taken off by the 'Red Coats', he changes his mind forms a guerrilla style militia group to fight the British and, in taking revenge, becomes a hero.

The Pentagon generals and Donald Rumsfield probably wept patriotic tears when they saw this film. What they do not seem to realize is that revenge is a universal trait of most people on this earth. Fighting an army of occupation who has killed, raped and tortured family members and unknown citizens is a fact of life and history on the BBM.

When headlines on the internet once again scream murder:

"US Military Murders Eleven Members of an Iraqi Family - Five Children Four Women and Two Men"

you have to wonder if these killers are totally ignorant of the relationship between their orders to kill and the revenge taken by those who suffer.

If you think they are out of touch with reality your wrong. The tactics of intimidation through murder have been in use for years. The general public is either too disgusted and distressed to see how the ball bounces or they want to play just like these pros.

Newsweek says:

"What to do about the deepening quagmire of Iraq? The Pentagon’s latest approach is being called "the Salvador option"—and the fact that it is being discussed at all is a measure of just how worried Donald Rumsfeld really is. "What everyone agrees is that we can’t just go on as we are," one senior military officer told NEWSWEEK. "We have to find a way to take the offensive against the insurgents. Right now, we are playing defense. And we are losing." Last November’s operation in Fallujah, most analysts agree, succeeded less in breaking "the back" of the insurgency—as Marine Gen. John Sattler optimistically declared at the time—than in spreading it out."

So you see, they are following a script, a very old script used many times in the past. Perhaps the officers and generals of King George's army thought the same thing.

Why would anyone want to create such suffering and trauma? Are they aware of the impact? Could they be engaged in a fight that will fail for a reason?

I think the answer is Yes. I think I think they and those that control them feed upon the emotional energy of suffering, manipulation, lies, and murder draped in freedom, nationalism and democracy.

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