« Chickamauga! | Main | Spy what spies, Oh you mean wiretaps »
December 22, 2005
Obcessive ? maybe
Might I leave a bit of explaining for the others. I am obcessed a bit with the clashes and struggles of men. I tend to see history as a continued story rather than a fixed event locked in the past. It troubles me that we (catholic not personal) keep acting out the same struggles that our fathers and thier fathers' fathers have wrestled with. War seem to be one of the most graphic and telling of them ,because it needlessly wastes life. So I try to tie some of the ruder observations and I hope some of the more sutble one to warfare. So much blood has been spilled on these grounds that the stories just cannot die. Here as in any nation we subject ourselves to the state and are rewarded with calls to sacrifice for the profit of a very few. I say enough! No more!
The latest reading of mine has been the civil war battles and leaders, by robert underwood johnson in 3 volumes. I tend to favor first hand accounts and recollections. We just have so many examples , and we live in such s bubble it is scarry. The words in the past couple of posts have been paraphrased quotes of soldiers in the battle. It would almost every time ring true,many lives are lost for the profit of a few.
I have attempted to point out that the current administrations zeal to go to war is misplaced. And I was struck at how the administration in the form of C. Rice was using the rendition laws to justify torture. How ironic that the case for rendition was established in the courts to control runaway slaves during the 1850s and 60s. In SECESSION! I pointed that out and gave anyone who felt the need a couple of websites to reference it. Tthen later in a comment I tried to point out Shermans vain telegraph to pres. lincoln at the fall of savannah. The waste that has become an obvious sore in iraq, I did point out the words of a union general after chattanooga,s fall in CHICKAMAUGA! where he quoted isaiah 2:4 when he refered to washington. I thought the same words were very fitting now. So yes I am obcessed a bit. I am convinced in my heart that the green party and the platform of the greens is the only sane way forward for the United States.
| By jjtechno | 07:04 PM
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://chattablogs.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi/28237
Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Obcessive ? maybe:
