RE: Why I'm not a terrorist
March 3, 2018 at 1:59 pm
(This post was last modified: March 3, 2018 at 2:03 pm by WinterHold.)
(March 2, 2018 at 11:40 am)Khemikal Wrote: One of the shittier things about a war...is that you probably won't win it if you let the enemy produce, stockpile, and deploy necessary material and supplies. That work is done by civilians, pressed into the war effort. It would have made little sense trying to "target" members of the nazi party to the exclusion of destroying the war infrastructure (we did both). The same is true of the japanese war machine. Initially, we did plan to hit the emperors palace..but it wasn't practical (and had already been reduced to rubble by conventional drops).
Hiroshima was a depot, Nagasaki had the mitsubishi yards. Both had military and civilians present. They were good targets for the weapon (bad targets for some weapons..incendiaries had been ruled out for nagasaki, iirc), and good targets for the war effort.
The idea of soldiers fighting soldiers in open fields of battle free of civilians just hasn't been anything more than nostalgia for a century (more, I guess). We're not on horseback dueling each other for honor.
About winning; humans said the same thing once upon a time in regards of slavery: everybody took slaves under the justification of "they are doing it; so why won't we?".
Eventually, the winners were those who fought against slavery.
The same can be applied here. The conventional way of warfare that is quite apathetic when it comes to burning anybody in the line of fire, creates and manufactures terrorists and damaged people. There is nothing you can possibly say to excuse yourself from the intentional burning of Khalid's parents in an airstrike. That creates never ending grudge, and that creates never ending terrorism from both sides.
Eventually; the mistake is the mistake of the person who pressed the button, and the person who followed the person who pressed it, and the person who justified for the person who pressed the button, from the ranks of ISIS to the ranks of the U.S army.
The real sacrifice is in stopping the shooting, even if it meant one's own death. It's better to get unplugged from the simulation, than to draw so many to the same pit one has fallen in.
It's a never ending cycle: WW2 didn't even complete the 100 years span; but blood is being spilled in scary ways and we're in a time that is considered to be "a time of peace". Everybody knows that a third round will happen, humanity even got an authentic doomsday clock right here:
https://thebulletin.org/timeline
