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A train on fire - America's waning empire
"This train is on fire and we have nothing to reap anymore.
This train is on fire and we have nowhere else to run.
This land was ours before we got bogged down in war.
She will die if it is a tie; it is time to return to the land itself."
This train is on fire and we have nowhere else to run.
This land was ours before we got bogged down in war.
She will die if it is a tie; it is time to return to the land itself."
Boris Grebenshikov- Train on Fire
True wisdom transcends
cultures, national borders, language and even time itself. While yes,
wisdom includes the ability to learn from experience, it also recognizes
that the fundamental flaws of humanity are universal. Wisdom must also
grow frustrated with the foolish, who believe that certain nations are
unique or special. The foolish who believe, therefore, that a particular
people are immune from these intrinsic human natures or repeating
errors of history.
People like the great
songwriter Boris Grebenshikov have wisdom. They know that most events
are not unique to nations, but rather universal human traits. Artists
such as Mr. Grebenshikov do not record the events merely as topical
entertainment. These songs, poems and books are also cautions to future
generations, as not to repeat them. This is why a songwriter thousands
of miles away in a completely different culture, while relating events
of another warrior nation of another era, could very well be describing
America of 2012.
The USA is a train on
fire, in love with war; so puffed with ignorant, patriotic pride that it
is unaware it's careening out of control, on a destination of complete
self destruction.
The danger lies when
war becomes a way of life and an accepted part of national culture. All
aggression is redefined as somehow a justifiable defensive act. The
only time the US was actually attacked by an aggressor was by Japan in
December of 1941, but they sanitize all of their aggressive actions as a
"pre-emptive" defensive, instead of the offensive acts of war they
really are.
"We gave birth to the sound of marching."
Present day America is
so entangled in this intimate affair with military might that even
newborns, wearing adorable camouflage jumpers adorned with "US Special
Forces," suckle war from birth. War is everywhere in this culture, and
the acceptance is so internalized that the romanticism is hardly even
questioned anymore.
Glorification of
militarism is present in virtually every store, petrol station, and pub
and television commercial break. Even American churches "support the
troops" and their murderous conquests. Through posters, fundraising
canisters and even commercial packaging, Americans are reminded of the
great sacrifice by their patriotic troops. Returning and active soldiers
are held in such high regard, it's a small wonder there is little
shortage of young new recruits.
Liberals who claim to
oppose these Imperialist wars are not immune to this seduction either.
Quick to attach soldiers to any cause they possibly can, activists are
actually glorifying the creation of the very warriors whose action they
claim to oppose. You would be hard pressed to observe any protest
without liberals dragging along a few Veterans. The American liberal
waves around Veterans far more than even the "pro-war" conservatives
these same people claim to scorn.
They're always quick to
point out that one in four of American homeless are veterans, so
society therefore, must be unfair to veterans. The issue of the homeless
is a national disgrace for anyone to suffer, but the high percentage of
veterans simply means that more Americans overall are veterans and more
of them are also homeless.
Liberals are
essentially requesting special housing privileges for homeless veterans
when they should be demanding an end to the wars which created both.
When all of a nation's resources are paying for war, the very conditions
which create homelessness can never be addressed.
"A range of burning torches, gathering all the dead parts."
To Americans today,
there no longer even exist such things as the "horrors of war;" Injuries
and deaths so gruesome and terrible that any person of moral conscience
would be moved to action in order to prevent them, casualties so
staggering and profound that a reasonable leader of any nation would be
motivated to wage wars very judiciously.
Improved body armor and
equipment has reduced US fatal casualties to roughly 9% in the war
against phantoms in Afghanistan. Yes, lower fatalities are desirable,
but only to an extent, and survivability doesn't necessarily equate to
an absolute advancement in humane warfare. What about the quality of
life for the victims of injuries so severe that in the past very few, if
any, would have survived?
Obama's escalation of
the war not only quadrupled American deaths but also resulted in over an
additional 17,000 permanently and severely injured American troops.
Seventeen-thousand, so
maimed by war that any decent human would recoil in disgust and demand
an end to such atrocities. But such is American romanticism of military
that they glorify these injuries through insulting Facebook memes,
actually celebrating the simple achievements of the needlessly
disfigured. Limbs and faces blown to bits are not inspirational; they
are revolting, disgusting reminders of what uncivilized barbarians this
nation has become.
Blinded by shrapnel,
this person is a jawless torso confined to an institution for the rest
of their life because of war. They weren't born this way; this is no
unfortunate biological abnormality that they have overcome. It is not
beautiful symbolism of human spirit that this person has now learned to
tap Morse code with their head.
But there isn't any
horror. There is only another patriotic fighter of the American way,
embracing his child with the cold steel of artificial arms. Isn't it
heartwarming?
The American view of
innocent civilian death by these wars is repulsively heartless. One
Democratic Party supporter of terrorist drone attacks summarized the
attitude well during a rare media discussion of this merciless atrocity,
even against children; "The important point is, there are no four year
old American children being killed."
"We believe that life is a battle."
Every reasonable person
understands that war is an occasional reality for nearly every nation.
Civilized people acknowledge the brutality, human cost and
repercussions of military action. It's reserved as the final option for
extreme cases of defense from an aggressor, or a last extreme measure
when the peace and security of the nation is threatened.
When members of the
military command more reverence than a minister or priest, a nation is
in trouble. For the US, military action is now a way of life and no
longer needs any justification or explanation. It is rarely met with a
raised brow. War consumes the media, entertainment, and the economy and
dominates politics above all other priorities, domestic and foreign.
Historically, as an end
result, perpetual war is counterproductive for a nation, empire and
people. On this course the US will either spend itself to death on
Imperialist expansion, or threaten the peace of so many other nations
that it can no longer be tolerated. But eventually, through its own
actions, America will strangle itself by its own hand. The US, as a
wise songwriter of another land, language and era noted of another
foolish empire, is, in the end, really about to defeat only itself.
Jamie Wendland
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