A Common Tread

[HARDCORE]

They say that wisdom comes with years (I am still hunting for mine), but it does strike me as interesting that: ?In all despotisms, there seems to be a few common treads!?

I still love the cute handles, however, that some of these regimes constantly apply to their dirty work! Be it ethnic cleansing, breathing room, or yes, even a few new twists on the old manifest destiny angle, when an aggressor is called to account, he always attempts to turn the scenario around, claiming that he is the injured party! (Alas, a lair by any other name!!)

For instance, do you remember how Japan blamed their aggression upon the United States for squeezing off the natural resources they needed to survive in 1940-1941? Or how Hitler claimed that he was just repatriating territory seized from Germany after World War I? ?I guess that some people can find an excuse for just about anything!?

Now take a long hard look at the two gadflies now swimming about in the international stew - IRAQ and NORTH KOREA!

We (USA) have been at the throats of both of these bad boys in the past - Korea in 1950, and Iraq in 1991! ?Was anything lasting really resolved in these two conflicts?? Both have, and continue to erupt in instant replays!?

North Korea got greedy back at the half-way mark of the Twentieth Century, and attempted to absorb their neighbors to the south! The very same held true as concerns Iraq?s actions in the last decade of that very same century! Both North Korea and Iraq have posed a dangerous threat to global security on numerous occasions since these past conflicts, and both have resorted to threats to keep the griddle hot and to chisel their way into our collective wallets! Alas, both have issued far more grief than should have been absorbed by any nation, or group there-of! Both bark like junk yard dogs but quickly cool the rhetoric when confronted or $atiated! Both also utilize the media to their distinct advantage, and for this matter, so do we? ?It?s all in the Game of State!!?

And lastly, neither one of these ?World-Class Harlots? will just go the hell away, it?s not their way! And anyone who thinks (or thought) differently is dragging upon tainted cannabin! Ah, but then such is the nature of the beast, is it not? I mean, what in the hell would mankind do for a hobby if it could not fall back upon war or greed, right?

So keep it up amigos - beat those drums, rattle those chains, thump your chests, and sound off like you?ve got a pair! But there is a point where you cross the barrier and naught but force (the language of the non-diplomatic type) can slake the thirst of a viper! ?And Iraq and North Korea are fast approaching that point!?

Not much changes with time it seems, and all is as it was with the Nazis, Saddam Hussein, the old USSR, and the North Korea of yore! And all of those trumpets, that sparkling clean military hardware, neatly pressed uniforms, flashy dress parades, and goose-stepping troops from these aggressor nations, never seem to look as proficient or spiffy after the excrement of war has been splattered all over hell!

VERITAS (maybe)? :cd: :cd: