War Talk

Lame duck no war talk listen to. No grand finale grande. You are ruled by the people and we have spoken in the election. The legal right to escalate conflict is superseded by the moral commitment to serve the people made when you took office. Let your memory be that of one who ultimately sought peace.

Maybe I did not like all the election results but the world is not frozen in time. I look to a fruitful future and would humbly hope for peace as all combatants lay down arms.

No unilateral action is justified even if well supported ‘allies’ choose to preempt another delusion and make it into a very negative reality. If such pre-emptive foolishness occurs, then arms shipments must cease. Propping up warlike regimes is an unneeded expense that is proving unrewarding under deleterious circumstances created when we are having trying times elsewhere. A low return on the investment, I say.

Hold yer fire.

An Eye For An Eye

An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth. This has been declared your system of justice, but the abuse of even this harsh precept is apparently taking place. So how much damage has been inflicted on you? Are you not restricted to like amounts? The example was given twice, so as to not confuse the academic among you.

Punish and punish and soon you have a cycle of death, a blood feud flaring with an enemy underestimated and ultimately goaded to be very smart and powerful. Our people do not want war as evidenced by the recent election. More pre-emptive wars are not in the offing. The killing of innocents must cease, lest more resistance be necessary. Creating a problem through ineffective policy could be discontinued. Vengeance births vengeance. Nobody is going to make the world safe for anybody.

Forcing resistance through economic strangulation and physical destruction is a worn philosophy that is producing more strife. I make the assumption that less strife is wanted but this may startle the econo-military junta that runs your nation, if their main mission in life is fighting and strategy. Let your strategy makers concentrate on economic salvation and the eventual end of aid money so easy to sign for. Work for the betterment of both communities and control the militarists among you.

Call for elections and civil discourse. Walk the path to peace.

VOTE! VOTE OR LOSE YOUR VOICE!

Persia Or That Fair Land Beyond The River Valleys

Persia or that land beyond the river valleys
We meet again.

The last deep meeting of disparate cultures produced Damascus steel,
Hybrid technology derived from African iron
Eastern Mediterranean bronze,
Indian brass.
All brought together as a trade route in ancient times.

What hath we wrought with this steel
But used it to find more resources
That would shape this steel in more ways
As we use fossil fuels to further refine our toolkit
Until one person cannot hope to know it all
So each owns bits and pieces of the whole
O the written word will save it all
Computers will store and roughly sort
But the human mind must be applied
To this task
For that life spark of an idea
Brings a new future
Without fossil fuel rule
Beneficial to all in availability

Peace be to all
In the sea
And upon the land.