WAR - What Is It Good For

Today - Absolutely Nothing

If your expecting a left wing blog that war is never necessary - your wrong.  There have been wars that were necessary to preserve the life and freedom we Cherish today.

Without the civil war, minorities today would still not have freedom nor a voice.  The first and second World War needed fighting to stop evil from taking the entire western world's freedom and forcing us to live like the North Koreans live today.

However, once the atom bomb was developed and unleashed everything changed.  It was no longer about men and women fighting other men and women who have different ideologies.  It became who could destroy the earth we live on for reasons of ideologies, religious belief, holding on to sacred ground, past wars or other reasons that, I believe, they aren't sure of themselves.

It's not like they want our resources because the only way they can win a war is by blowing up all the resources.  It's not like they want slaves because the nuclear fallout will kill off not only the people they are fighting, but themselves.  It's not like they want power because there won't be anybody to have power over once we all drop the big one.

It's about saber rattling.  It's about, you have a big stick and now I have one also.  It's about fear not about future.  It's about status not about good living for all.

Does anybody think that any country who threatens the western world's way of life will be allowed to use a nuclear weapon?  Does anybody think that a country will risk their existence by using a nuclear bomb on another country?  If your answer is yes, you're a person who lives their life in fear and negative energy.

If your answer is no, then why are in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.  These regional wars make no sense.  We are gaining nothing.  We are losing a lot.  These regions are going to do what they are going to do.  We have no control.  What are these wars good for - absolutely nothing!!

The best way to protect ourselves is the way Israel protects itself.  Israel may threaten war, but they are currently not in any war.  They don't have troops in countries that don't want them there.  They don't have troops fighting someone in a country (like the Taliban) that we are not sure are any better than the powers of the country they are supposedly defending.

What Israel's strategy is to use their resources to infiltrate countries that may do them harm.  They use covert operations to protect themselves.  Who do you think killed the Iranian scientists?  Instead of being visible with troops, they use their CIA like resources to stop people from gaining access to their country. 

Yes, they have a Homeland Security Agency like ours, but they use more of their resources to know what a potentially threatening group is planning and stopping it from doing harm before they can execute their plan.  If we had that kind of security we would have stopped the Twin Towers bombing.  If we had that kind of strategy, we would not need to be sending troops into harm's way. 

The world is a dangerous place.  We need to protect ourselves, but why can't we learn from our mistakes.  Did all the dying in Vietnam make our life better?  Did the war in Iraq make us happier?  Do we have more positive energy in our life because we are killing and being killed in Afghanistan?  If you're answering yes to these questions, please find a positive energy mentor. 

War had it's place in history, however it no longer does.  I can't live my life wanting to fight other people so I can feel safer.  I feel safe and will continue to feel safe until I know it's not safe (if that day ever comes).  I'm not putting my head in the sand. I just don't want to live a life worrying about something that might happen, but is not happening now.

I see a positive future not a negative future.  War is not in my positive future.