What is it good for?

WAR! Good God…

Well, you know the words.  War is an awful thing.  Necessary at times, unfortunately, but horrible.

Still, though, I miss the “good old days” when war had meaning.  Not some fight for ideology fought by arm-chair generals sipping cocktails.  But, a nasty, no-holds-barred event when the victor came away with some old-fashioned “spoils of war.”

Used to be, when a leader sent his young people to give their lives they collectively came back with something.  We were conquerors… not messengers of democracy to people who know nothing of it.  War was fought for land and resources.  If you had to go through the horrors of war, you could be assured that if you won, you won more than some political points for the next U.N. meeting.  You took the country.  You filled up your trucks with booty.  You didn’t have to worry about the Geneva Conventions (which only apply to the West, right?)  You didn’t have to worry about whether you had permission to shoot at your enemy.  You blasted them, subjugated their population, took their stuff, and hoisted your flag on their lands.

That’s what should have happened in Iraq… we should’ve went in there and taken over everything.  A McDonald’s on every corner.  Not send our young people to die for some fleeting Iraqi democracy that will never exist - nor do they want.

Contrary to popular, leftist beliefs, the Iraq war is not being fought for oil…  one need only look at the price of a gallon of gas right now to dispell that idiotic belief.  The Iraq War is being fought over ideology.  As much as the politicians deny that this is a war against Islam; that is exactly what it is.  (Not that I think that is necessarily a bad thing.)  And, that’s what our enemy thinks regardless of what western politicians claim.  I would much rather the U.S. have fought the war for oil.  Because, right now, our good soldiers are dying for absolutely nothing.  At least, nothing they can put in a truck and take home with them.

War is dirty.  You can’t fight a war being “nice” to your enemy.  Collateral damage?  Please.  The children of our enemies grow up to be our enemies.  Did we worry about collateral damage during the world wars?  Nope.  If we had, we all be speaking a mix of German and Japanese right now.

So, what is war good for?  Right now, absolutely nothing.  (Say it again…)

But, it didn’t used to be that way.  And if Western Civilization plans on sticking around, we’d better remember how to fight a proper war.  Otherwise, start brushing up on the Quran.