Copyright © 2009 Ernest Bloom.
An enemy is not someone you hate, but someone whose views
have grown temporarily intolerable, even to the point
of posing a threat to your own existence.
Warfare is not about coddling; warfare is not about inflicting
minimal discomfort on the innocent, or the less guilty.
Warfare is about applying maximum pain targeted upon an enemy
with the objective never of revenge, but rather of eradicating
his threat as swiftly as possible: a point forgotten by citizens
of America and Europe alike, but not
by our common enemies.
Our common enemies act on their natural impulses in the face of a superficial threat. We act on superficial impulses (if impulses they may be called) in the face of a more than real and grave threat to our bodily well-being. The schism is on the both sides, we are all very much mental cases. The sad truth is- their affliction is a military advantage. Ours- a biological disability. But it's always been the case, on all scales and in all times. The war and schism between the Super Ego and the ID is engraved into the very surface of history. The extravert schoolboys bully the introvert nerds. The war-mongering Mongorians invade the monastic West. The Germans make war on the neutral Poland. It seems we just can't keep our hormones at check, we must conquer, we must fight no matter what the cause. Cassus beli is just a minor inconvenience in the way of conflict and the cultural variety the European Union so ardently seeks to mantain is, whether we want it or not, the very cradle and spore of every war and conflict from ages since.
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