I hate war. As a historian, I have read countless books about war, especially those over the past century, and war is brutal, barbaric, savage, hideous, horrid—there aren’t enough words in my Thesaurus to describe how horrible I think war is and how much I despise it. In war, it is nearly always the innocent who suffer the most. If we could have thrown Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Tito into the ring and let them duke it out, that would have been far better. In the 20th century, hundreds of millions of innocent lives would have been saved.
But it’s never the demons who cause the wars who fight in them. It’s always the guiltless who endure the most agony.
I hate war, but I also cannot deny that sometimes it is necessary. Hitler had to be stopped. Japan had to be stopped. North Korea—communism—had to be stopped. And the only way to do that was by war.
Sadly, one of the greatest truths of history is that there always are, have been, and will be evil monsters and nations on this earth. Evil does exist, and for the sake of the descent among humanity, it must be eradicated. And sometimes war is the only, and/or best, means of doing that. The Old Testament teaches that God used war at times to remove whole wicked, barbaric, savage peoples from this earth; He even used war, many times, to punish His own people. An entire tribe can become so vile that it is no longer fit, no longer deserving, no longer has a right to live on this beautiful, blessed earth God created for mankind. And he got rid of some of them. And he sometimes used war to do it. We did it, to a lesser extent, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Thus, sometimes the alternative to war—to let evil exist and spread and destroy—is worse than war itself.
As noted, throughout history and today, evil people and evil leaders exist. And those evil leaders have brainwashed their entire nation to be evil like them. The Democratic Party in America has programmed all Democrats to believe in and vote for some very evil people and policies, and that makes those voters, to that extent, evil too. People who believe in murdering babies, mutilating children for sexual perversion, pedophilia, turning criminals loose on society—these are evil people. Now, not everything they do is evil; nobody, not even Adolf Hitler, was 100% evil. But evil exists and must be obliterated for the sake of the good. I’m certainly not advocating nuking Los Angeles, but I do wish the EVIL of the Democratic Party and its members could be exterminated from this planet. And just like Benedict Arnold deserved to be hanged for his treason to America, he has a lot of cousins in America today who deserve the same fate. But it didn’t happen to Benedict Arnold, and won’t happen today. And it won’t happen today precisely because the evil in America is too deep.
“America First” does not mean “America Only.” I am a devout believer in George Washington’s “no entangling alliances,” but I try to be practical enough to realize that the United States does have interests in the world, especially economic, that necessitate those interests be protected. And that has, in our history, at times, meant war. I’m not exactly sure why it’s always America that has to go out and save mankind. Still, it’s moot because it’s the position we now find ourselves in, the position the military-industrial complex and the Deep State have put us, and the world, in, and it is a situation that, at present, we cannot avoid, whether we like it or not. And I, for one, don’t. But it isn’t going to change any time soon. Well, at least not until our government bankrupts us or until we become a colony of an impoverished Third World Mexico.
All of this is because of the evil around the world and in our own nation. Another example. Every single illegal alien within America’s borders today needs to be deported—every one of them. They are breaking the law; they have no right to be in our country. Big Agriculture and the hotel industry, et al, are not sufficient reasons for rejecting one of the major foundations of a civilized, non-evil society, i.e., law and order. But half the American nation supports, and is destroying things, so that the illegals might have the “right” to break our laws and destroy civilization. I wish every one of the people who support the illegals would be deported with them. They obviously don’t love America, so why do they stay? Well, I guess barbarians love barbarism. And evil people love evil.
I certainly don’t want another “civil war”—I hate war, remember—but we had one before, and most Americans think it was a justified war. Again, as much as we OUGHT to hate war, it is sometimes a necessary thing. It’s just the nature of the cruel, oppressive, savage, evil world we live in. As historian Will Durant wrote, “Civilization is an occasional and temporary interruption of the jungle.”
Iran and nukes. Does America go to war to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons? It’s not my decision. I just pray that we can avoid it.
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