5) Postmodern Quagmire

Modern Analysis of Warfare

The Seven Steps of War Cycles:

1. Aggression (false or true) & Retaliation

2. Battles: Loss of Life & Ground / Humans and Machines fighting

3. Victory of one side over another / Conquering: ending a campaign

4. Occupation: suppression troops used for police state under martial law

5. Enslavement: subjugation of a people under rule of another against their will

6. Resistance: Rebellion by oppressed people is inevitable

7. Revolution: act of aggression in response to oppression (back to Step 1…)

Although the reasons for going to War are almost always politically fabricated, defense and loss of lives are not merely political. Death is not political; therefore objections to being forced artificially to kill and be killed are not just political. Certainly there are always corrupt reasons for War. No War can be justified entirely. The Crusades, War for Independence, World War I, and World War II all had atrocities committed on all sides. Wars staged on politically corrupt terms do not take into account the realities of people’s lives beyond politics, and yet most people accept this as the only reality possible.

International Oil Companies (Exxon, Mobile, & BP), will take the Iraqi people for about $21 Trillion. That is twenty one thousand BILLION. In perspective about double the United States current cash debt and a little over 40% of the accrued National Debt of $50 Trillion. That would be $70,000 for every American currently alive, but it will all go to about 6 Oil companies. Well not all, some of that will continue to be used by lobbyists to buy off Congress and anyone else that stands in their way of false progress.

War mongering is a profitable business for the few. While the price of Oil makes everything else in our economy go sour, the Oil Companies are making record profits. How many of us should support sending people to fight so that these Oil companies get richer? For every Human being who has died, American Soldier and Iraqi Citizen, these companies stand to rake in about $21,000,000. Halliburton and other Contracted Companies and Mercenaries like Blackwater have made over a Trillion dollars already; and our great Nation is now indebt by Trillions of dollars to China and others.

Maybe those Oil companies will lower the price of gas as soon as they get that 21 Trillion. Then again, they might not. They still have to sack Iran to corner the market. They are gearing up for that now. The most powerful country on Earth is America. Our DoD with a Military budget greater than the rest of the World combined is not afraid of Iran. Our politicians have been bought by big business and sold a ‘New World Order’. The time for change is now. And we are not just talking politics, but rather a series of ethical, multi-cultural and global humanitarian efforts and movements. Some are underway now, but others are still needed. Change will have to come from the people.