:idea: Fight Right War or Lose the Right to Exist
In the present decisive confrontation between the civilized countries of the world and fundamentalist Muslim inspired terror and its state sponsors, such as the former regime of Saddam Hussein, one re-hears the cry of wilderness of No to War shouted by the peace-loving devotees of the globe, who hold pride of place in their wishful thinking, that in all human conflicts, good will and sober reason are the only effective means in resolving them. To uphold such a position however, after th "Fall of Adam", is to uphold that eirenic instincts are the predominant instincts of man. Such a stand revises all human history and re-writes Darwin's Origin of the Species, by appending to the latter, that conflict is not an immanent characteristic of all species but an aberration.
Hence, the upholders of this slogan of wilderness can only sustain their stand by re-inventing human nature, or by adopting the tale of Genesis that man, unlike other creatures, was created in the image of God and not in the image of the "monkey". Thus enlightenment, Clarence Darrow, (in the famous "Monkey Trial" in the USA), is replaced by obscurantism, William Jennings Bryan, by the believers of peace in all circumstances. And ironically, the avant-garde of the progressive movement, as most of the war protestors would proudly claim to be, replace Marx with Habakkuk.
In the stupor of their religious "oceanic feeling" of the basic goodness of man, Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Niezsche are thrown into the bonfire of their ignorance. Power, ambition, envy, avarice, and passion, have no place in their thinking. Homer, Shakespeare, and Goethe, who premised their great writings on these inherent characteristics of man, are turned into spiritual and intellectual reactionaries.
All these global demonstrations against war, are happening at a time when Muslim fundamentalists and their suicidal death-
squads, have declared a relentless holy war against Western civilization and its so called dens of vice. The raze and extermination of Western culture and its people, is the number one item in the "holy agenda" of Muslim fanatic terrorism.
War is the bane of the human condition. But there are justified and unjustified wars. Mankind must always strive to achieve peace in the interrelationship of nations by non-belligerent means, when-ever this is possible. But paradoxically, often peace can only be achieved by war. War therefore, in some circumstances is absolutely neccessary, as a surgeon's knife is that saves a human organism in crisis, and serves as the only effective means of saving a nation from extinction.
The ominous invisible mortal threats that are hovering over Western civilization are calling to its peoples: Fight Right War or Lose the Right to Exist.
Edited to remove caps in thread title. Cosmo
In the present decisive confrontation between the civilized countries of the world and fundamentalist Muslim inspired terror and its state sponsors, such as the former regime of Saddam Hussein, one re-hears the cry of wilderness of No to War shouted by the peace-loving devotees of the globe, who hold pride of place in their wishful thinking, that in all human conflicts, good will and sober reason are the only effective means in resolving them. To uphold such a position however, after th "Fall of Adam", is to uphold that eirenic instincts are the predominant instincts of man. Such a stand revises all human history and re-writes Darwin's Origin of the Species, by appending to the latter, that conflict is not an immanent characteristic of all species but an aberration.
Hence, the upholders of this slogan of wilderness can only sustain their stand by re-inventing human nature, or by adopting the tale of Genesis that man, unlike other creatures, was created in the image of God and not in the image of the "monkey". Thus enlightenment, Clarence Darrow, (in the famous "Monkey Trial" in the USA), is replaced by obscurantism, William Jennings Bryan, by the believers of peace in all circumstances. And ironically, the avant-garde of the progressive movement, as most of the war protestors would proudly claim to be, replace Marx with Habakkuk.
In the stupor of their religious "oceanic feeling" of the basic goodness of man, Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Niezsche are thrown into the bonfire of their ignorance. Power, ambition, envy, avarice, and passion, have no place in their thinking. Homer, Shakespeare, and Goethe, who premised their great writings on these inherent characteristics of man, are turned into spiritual and intellectual reactionaries.
All these global demonstrations against war, are happening at a time when Muslim fundamentalists and their suicidal death-
squads, have declared a relentless holy war against Western civilization and its so called dens of vice. The raze and extermination of Western culture and its people, is the number one item in the "holy agenda" of Muslim fanatic terrorism.
War is the bane of the human condition. But there are justified and unjustified wars. Mankind must always strive to achieve peace in the interrelationship of nations by non-belligerent means, when-ever this is possible. But paradoxically, often peace can only be achieved by war. War therefore, in some circumstances is absolutely neccessary, as a surgeon's knife is that saves a human organism in crisis, and serves as the only effective means of saving a nation from extinction.
The ominous invisible mortal threats that are hovering over Western civilization are calling to its peoples: Fight Right War or Lose the Right to Exist.
Edited to remove caps in thread title. Cosmo
