I Called It

The War in Iraq, I fuckin' called it. The following are excerpts from a fifteen or so page essay I wrote on the inevitability of an American war within the first half of my life. This was composed sometime between late 1999 and early 2001. I have added idiotic comments and a lot of capital letters for your (i.e. “my”) entertainment.

"Lack of the ability to compromise and negotiate will set people up for war, but the real instigators are vanity and the ego…what does compromise really achieve, and what is derived from negotiation? In most cases great and straightforward violence is only traded for spite and underlying aggression. Before mankind can make any progress it must realize why it is fighting. We fight battles not to settle disputes, but to win. The essence of all conflict is a vain want by the mind to elate one's own self over those around him. It is not a conquering of people, but a conquering of egos." <--Such as degrading Arabs by calling them Hajis in the same way that slaves were referred to as Sambos AMIRITE??

"Conflict, particularly war, usually starts as an economic or political struggle between two nations. One country will feel oppressed while the other feels just in being an oppressor, or one country will covet the fortunes of another." <--LIKE OIL AMIRITE??

"The first world nations therefore feel that since they have an established government, it is their right and duty to police those nations which do not...[The] first world country ends up making donations of resources or currency to the country being supported, inevitably forming a worldwide welfare organization under the cloak of governmental stability." <--Socialism at home + fascism abroad = capitalism AMIRITE??

"To retaliate against the policing nation, citizens of the third world nation will most commonly assault troops from the other country. As an effect more troops are sent to hold back the citizens assaulting the first troops, and in a chain effect those troops are also assaulted. Instead of doing the logical thing, as most governments always refrain from doing, and withdrawing from that country, the first world country stays and armed conflict breaks out. This results in an international incident which can, if not properly controlled, result in a minor scale war." <--.......IWASRITE!!

"These wars tend to be of either politics or beliefs. When nations with stable economies fight, greater weapons and larger amounts of soldiers are issued, and the conflict becomes that much bloodier. Often a moral or political leader is used merely as a scapegoat for the true reason of the war. Many people die not knowing the true reason that they are sacrificing themselves. This mindless slaughter is usually referred to as patriotism." <--SCAPEGOATSAMA BIN LADEN AMIRITE??

"When the members of a nation believe so passionately that their government should be the only form, opposing types of governments are degraded...Without understanding the opposing societal development, people are trained by their corresponding governments to automatically condemn all others. This is not a battle of right, but one which results solely from the fear of the unknown." <--OMGZ A-RABS THEY HAS DIFFRENT GOD AMIRITE??

"If one of these countries wishes to go to war with another country for any reason, what better scapegoat for them than their governmental practices? The people do not have to have experienced or understand the workings of their opposites. They only need be told that it is different and ergo threatening to their way of life." <--I WAN OIL BUT I'LL BLAME SADDAM, U KEEL HIM FIRST B4 HE KILL U AMIRITE??

"Now in a time when violence is no longer necessary, man does not know what to do with his hunger and thus wages unneeded wars and raises bloody conflict merely to appease his yearning for battle. All of the world may turn to this and ignore their successes in government and life in order to achieve the archaic form of social structure based purely on the untainted art of and lust for violence against each other." <--KEKEKEKEKE

"Man's worst enemy is his own mind." <--JOANIE LESS THAN THREES CHACHI AMIRITE??

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28.7.01 -- 45 days prior to 9/11 :

"What the hell is going on? What’s happening to the world?...They say animals get nervous before a storm. I say humans get nervous before a war. When soldiers charge why do they duck their heads? It doesn’t matter why if the bullets end up going over them, the outcome is all that matters. In the same way it doesn’t matter much who starts the war or why, just who wins and what that means for the participants."