November 11, 2003- Armistice Day

Today is a holiday in America and in a few other Western countries as well. For it was 85 years ago today, at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, that the armistice, or the agreement that put an end to World War 1, was signed and went into effect, ending that war. This was a momentous occasion in the history of mankind, for World War 1 was the worst war that mankind had ever seen up to that time. It was looked on as a war so terrible that all hoped that it would never happen again, because the toll it took in terms of human lives was astounding. So, in remembrance of the American lives lost in that war, a holiday was proclaimed for the 11th of every November, which was to be called Armistice Day, a day to remember the end of that terrible war. However, that war was only the worst one that mankind had ever seen for a matter of a few decades after that, because in 1939, World War 2 started, and its casualty toll dwarfed that of World War 1. Once World War 2 was over, the holiday on November 11th was changed from Armistice Day to Veteran's Day, and it became a holiday that remembered the dead from all wars that America fought in, and that is what the holiday has been called here in America ever since. It has different names in Canada and other countries that celebrate this day, but the theme is all the same, remembrance of the was dead of that country. This year marks a special milestone for the holiday, not only because it is the 85th anniversary of it, but because this year, America is involved in perhaps the largest scale war that they have ever been involved in since World War 2. Today, the War On Terror rages on in Afghanistan and Iraq and lots of other places around the world, and the meaning of the original Armistice Day seems as far away as November 11th, 1918 does. For this year, America is run by a President that sees war as the best way to get what he wants from people, and he does not hesitate to use it. The original meaning of Armistice Day is forgotten as American troops once again have to face the horrors of war, and face them from new enemies in new types of ways. Modern-day America seems to be unconcerned with the hardships and evils that this war that they are waging have on the people they wage it on, the prevailing attitude is that these people brought it all upon themselves by not obeying America when they had the chance. Those that thought up the idea of Armistice Day wanted to convey to people that war was an abomination of mankind, something that gains nothing for anyone and has far too high a price tag to be worth anything. Today's White House looks at that thinking like it is as archaic as the fashions that people wore in 1918. Today, the President tells the American people that endless warfare is necessary to rid the world of those that threaten America and its way of life. Those that the American military kill that are civilians and children and the like are just swept under the rug and not acknowledged as if their lives never existed in the first place. The lessons of World War 1 are cast aside as well as this President wraps everything about this war up in a patriotic fervor and makes everyone that disagrees with him about the war into a traitorous menace of some kind. When Armistice Day was first celebrated, many wanted to do away with war altogether, as the world was a changing place in the 20th Century, and man seemed sophisticated enough to be able to find other ways of settling his problems by now. But 85 years later, it looks as if man wants no part of settling things in any other way than war. World War 1 was a war that was fought all over the world, showing how quickly that evil and hatred could spread in the new global society. Here we are close to a century later, and once again, America is embroiled in a war that is being fought all over the world, and the excuse for it is that America says that hatred and evil have spread worldwide and must be stopped. All that we see from this is that those that are all hung up on war will find any way to start one, any excuse that they can think of. If a global society is supposed to be about settling things peaceably, it can also be used to say that evil is spreading worldwide and must be stopped. If technology improves and it looks as if it can be used to circumvent war, it can also be used to create all sorts of new types of weapons and ways to kill others so that a war can be perpetuated. No matter what goes on in society, those that want war will always find a way to get it, and that is what we have in America now. Those that want war can always find ways to start them because they are the ones that have the access to the upper echelons of society and can manipulate them to make wars happen. President Bush manipulated Congress and the American people in order to justify the war in Iraq. He did sop because he saw that war in the same way that he saw the original War On Terror, as a way to make money for his pals. The sad fact is that war is big business and very profitable for many businesses, and they want those profits, and they don't care about the price that they pay for them with the war, they see it all as worth it. The current War On Terror is the best example ever, as it is something that has already generated billions upon billions of dollars, and it promises to keep on doing so for years to come. That is what President Bush cares about, not the words of Armistice Day. Those long-ago words do not make his present day business buddies millions of dollars like the war does. So the words of Armistice Day are just thrown away these days like so much garbage. That is where we are at on this Armistice Day 2003. We Are looking at an America that is involved in a war that has no end in sight anytime soon, or anytime at all actually. What is going to come out of all of this?

President Bush seems to think that some sort of New World Order is going to come out of it all, and that America shall lead that new order. That is sheer lunacy. Oh yes, a New World Order is going to come out of it all, but it is not going to be the order that Bush envisions. He sees a world or stability and calm, with all subservient to the USA. What he is going to get, and has already gotten, is a world of chaos and anarchy and hatred for the USA. He has turned each and every American citizen into a potential target for those that hate the USA. He has sent thousands of Americans into harm's way, and done little to nothing to ensure that they do not get killed. He has made America itself a more unsafe place, a place that has to watch out for terrorism within its own borders. He has done this by sending America around the world trying to imprint their senses of order on others that may not want that. With these tactics, for every enemy of America that is eliminated, there have been three more springing up to take their place. More people throughout the world hate America now than ever before in history, and Bush seems to not care about that at all. His answer to it all is to try and bludgeon and bully and bomb any that oppose him into submission. The longer that The War On Terror goes on, the more dangerous it gets because more people join it on the said against America. All that Bush and his Pentagon lackeys have had to say about it al is that America is going to get anyone that hates them and all bad guys shall be punished and so forth. This war just keeps on getting bigger and bigger and gets fought in more and more places and sucks up more and more American money. In terms of size, it is now on a parallel with World War 1, with it being fought on so many different fronts in so many different countries. Nothing positive is coming out of it. More Americans are being killed and maimed in this war every day and the objective of it all seems to get cloudier each day as well. Too much of it seems to be about America getting revenge for September 11th, 2001, and trying to show the rest of the world that America still reigns supreme on the planet. It is a war that is being used to send a message to mankind, and that message is not quite getting through. For the longer that America is at this war, the more they are seen as vulnerable and nowhere near as strong as they say that they are, because the results that they are getting from the war prove that. Not only are insurgents in Iraq making advances and strides against the Americans, but the Taliban (remember them?) are also staging a comeback against the American forces in Afghanistan. People are just not accepting the edicts that America has given them, they will not accept the world the way that America wants it. All that this will bring about is endless warfare, exactly what Armistice Day was trying to prevent. For World War 1 scared the shit out of mankind, they saw that he now did have the power to destroy himself and wipe himself of of the face of the earth. The fear was that some kind of uncaring motherfucker would get in control of things and just do horrible things in order to achieve some agenda of his or another. George W. Bush seems to be that uncaring motherfucker in the flesh. He is taking the awesome power of the American military and using it to try to subjugate the rest of the world to his will. This is especially scary considering that George W. Bush is only going to be President until no later than January 20, 2009, at 12 PM Eastern Standard Time, and that date could be moved up to January 20, 2005, at 12 PM EST (let us all hope so). The war that he has orchestrated is going to be raging far longer than that, so once he has left public life and retired into a very comfortable life, Americans will still be getting killed somewhere on earth as a part of the war. Tax money will still be getting siphoned from good projects into the war effort, and Mr. Businessman will still be making his obscene profits off of the whole thing. Meanwhile, generations of both Americans and Muslims alike are going to be wrecked and forever scarred from the war, and that hate that this all gives birth to will continue for years while George W. Bush is making speeches at Rotary Clubs and Elks Clubs all across America and raking in the dough for telling his story of how this whole war started. That is what the world is facing on Armistice Day 2003. Back in World war 1, we had the Kaiser of Germany that was mad enough to think that his country was powerful enough to rule the world. He sold that idea to his people through appealing to national pride and patriotism. With that support from his people, he actually went out and tried to implement his insane scheme, and failed miserably. He found out that one nation cannot rule the entire earth, no matter how big and strong they are. Today, we have a President Of The United States that is also mad enough to think that his country can rule the entire world. He has sold that idea to his people through appealing to national pride and patriotism as well. With that support, he has also tried to implement his insane scheme. He is going to find out exactly what Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany found out 85 years ago, and that is even though this is the 21st Century and America is stronger and more economically advanced than any other nation in the history of civilization, that he will fail at his quest as well. Since Bush wants to ignore the reasons behind Armistice Day, which was a peace lovers holiday before the 1940's, he will learn the harsh lessons of war, that it is something that no one ever really wins, no matter what they say. The price that American society is going to pay for this current war is going to be astronomical. There are already untold thousands of Americans whose lives have been forever altered by the war, those that have lost some physical health as a result of it all, and those that have lost their sanity as a result of it all. These sort of things are going to go on for several generations in America, until this fuckin' war madness finally is stopped. Once that6 happens, it is going to take several more generations before these affects are expunged from American society, so this war is sure to fuck America up for a good portion of the 21st Century. This travesty is what America has on its hands on Armistice Day 2003. The lessons that were supposed to be learned from all that which happened 85 years ago have been forgotten, and America is far the worse place for that. All that can be hoped for is that this time that things do not get so out of hand that there can eventually be an Armistice Day for this war too, and that this time America learns the lessons that it should have learned in 1918, but with this war, the point of no return and/or oblivion could be reached before any armistice, and everything that the people of 1918 did their best to prevent could become reality and everything could be destroyed. If there ever is an Armistice day for this war, it needs to be the last Armistice Day in the history of man, because he cannot keep on going like he has been much longer, because he will ultimately destroy himself and the world as well. Let us all fervently hope that in 85 years from now, that these lessons have finally been learned once and for all.