08-06-2013, 03:50 PM
Jeffrey Orling Wrote:Of course it was worth it... Don't you get who it's worth it to? The MIC makes out and did very nicely. That's why wars are fought by empires. $$$$
You just don't get irony, do you....
Or deep politics for that matter.
As per Magda's post, it certainly wasn't worth it for the dead. They were regarded simply as "useless eaters", flotsam and jetsam to the geopoliticians.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war