Iraq War
The War Machine has been well-oiled. The War Machine is prepared to strike. The War Machine doesn't care about your version of what peace should be. The War Machine is made to destroy and kill...some call it defense.
Who complains loudly about a despot in a desert thousands of miles away? He is responsible for the deaths of many at just a simple command followed blindly by his stooges. His own people kept in line and segregated by ancient religious belief systems are kept illiterate and masked by a future moving faster than they can comprehend.
All peoples speak of peace but none seem to agree as to what peace truly is. Peace is not ignoring realities. Peace is not simply halting violence. Peace is not a state of 'no war', for war is the job of the warrior class.
The warrior class has always been, and will always be. The warrior class trains and practices in the shadow world of camps and forts throughout the world on a daily basis. The warrior class, like all classes, has their time to 'Be'.
The world is not a peaceful place. Israel/Palestine, North & South Korea, various African countries, India & Pakistan, Kosova...even the brutality within our own cities thru gang warfare... the world is not a peaceful place.
But violence when put into the hands of crazed, self-called rulers, prevents the attainment of the ideals of Peace. Many choose to turn-off their news radios and televisions and say to themselves There, I am at peace now. But this level of peace, even tho it is temporal, works...until they go out into the streets again, join the fraternity of friends in work and in play. Then the reality of war & violence once again becomes apparent.
I am a man of Peace. I do not favor the extremes of War. I do not want to see or hear of innocents losing their lives to bombs and bullets. I do not want to even imagine the buckets of blood flooding the streets of Iraq, or any other country. But what I want and what is the reality are two different things.
My own Peace can only be found within myself. The idealism of 'World Peace' is illusory as long as mankind continues to live by their mind. It is the mind that works its Yin/Yang mercilessly. The mind solves problems, the mind creates problems. The mind stokes the ego. The mind is the Joker that confuses, doubts, brings disappointments. The mind brings the spark of creativity into being, the mind challenges problems into solving, the mind devises solutions - and the minds of the warriors today are going to battle.
No, this upcoming war with Saddam is not a perfect solution. But how perfect is Hussein? How perfect was Hitler? How perfect was Stalin? How perfect are the madmen that run countries according to their own whims and ways? How perfect are countries that are hungry? How perfect are countries that have no means to educate themselves? How perfect are countries that are unplugged from the rest of the world? How perfect are countries that have nothing but a misinterpreted religion controlling their lives?
And on the other hand, how perfect are countries willing to risk their own lives to defend other people against the atrocities of ignorance?
In this Yin/Yang world we will not see perfect Truth. In this Yin/Yang world we will never see True Peace. In this Yin/Yang world we will always have to make choices. We can only hope to 'liberate' a desert kingdom from its Monarchy of Madness... just to say 'we tried' and hope that we succeed with best intentions.
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The warrior classes
shall clash
upon the battlefields.
The missiles shall fly
and the bombs will drop
the bullets will scream
thru the dry desert air.
The Grand Palaces
built for the egomaniac
shall crumble
as will his forces
and his toys of war...
His monuments to himself
shall lay in waste
so the country can
bury its dead and
pursue it dreams
and whether those
dreams
shall include revenge
only Truth shall know.
But the ideals of
Freedom
cannot be the
exclusive property
of only a chosen few,
For freedom is the gift
of all existence
to become ones own
potential,
to be authentic
with one's being.
_____
The warrior classes
shall clash
upon the battlefields.
The missiles shall fly
and the bombs will drop
the bullets will scream
thru the dry desert air.
The Grand Palaces
built for the egomaniac
shall crumble
as will his forces
and his toys of war...
His monuments to himself
shall lay in waste
so the country can
bury its dead and
pursue it dreams
and whether those
dreams
shall include revenge
only Truth shall know.
But the ideals of
Freedom
cannot be the
exclusive property
of only a chosen few,
For freedom is the gift
of all existence
to become ones own
potential,
to be authentic
with one's being.
_____
Cecil
Originally written 3/18/03
