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High And Mighty
Posted by Farid (Guest) - Friday, November 7 2003, 11:50:30 (EST)
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"13,000 of their warriors I cut down with the sword. Their blood like the waters of a stream I caused to run through the squares of their city. The corpses of their soldiers I piled in heaps...His (the Babylonian King's)royal bed, hid royal couch, the treasure of his palaces, his property, his gods and everything from his palace, without number, I carried away. His captive warriors were given to the soldiers of my land like grasshoppers. The city I destroyed, I devastated, I burned with fire."

This calm recounting of what is after all group-murder, indulged in to this day and hour, refers to a victory over Babylon by the Assyrian king Shamshi-Adad V. Oates calls this type of account "typically bloodthirsty"...of the Assyrians. Since they were treated to much the same whenever they lost, one has to assume the Assyrians were simply more literary than those who defeated them...or perhaps they saw a practical value in describing in detail what everyone else back then did...for propaganda purposes.

At least they were out front and vocal about the realities of war...something you won't find today when the Americn public and it's leaders must shield themselves from the horrors they unleash.

I've always marvelled at the excuse given for dropping an atom bomb on sleeping women and children. It goes something like..."we didn't want any more of our soldiers to get killed, even though it's their job and they sign up for it. Instead we decided to kill the families of the enemy soldiers, the ones who had the least to do with starting a war". It's that same murder of the innocents Christianity got its start through. Japanese mothers, babies and grandparents became the target of choice. You can imagine the outcry if such a thing had been done to Chicago by a Japanese high command...to spare their own soldiers...the people they hire, pay and train to go to war...from war...from getting hurt in one...go kill the women and children instead.

How would a "typically bloodthirsty" deed such as that...or the murder of three million innocent Vietamese fighting valiantly for their independence from China, then France, then you-know-whom...this bastion of liberty and democracy that lectures Muslims, of all things...or the protracted strangulation and murder of Iraqi civilians read...if any American official from the President on down, was honest enough to state the facts boldly.

"In the second year of my reign I caused lies to be spread concerning my foes. Their country I cut in half separating mother from som and father from wife. Their children I caused to be starved for food and medicines. By the thousands I locked them in filthy wards where they died in great pain. Their treasures I stole, fire I rained on their homes from the sky. I made of their cities graveyards where the dead piled up so that disease and pestilence saved my warriors much effort. Children by the thousands and tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands I caused to die so that none would issue from their bodies and women I blinded and babies yet unborn I ripped from their mother's wombs. Verily it was a mighty victory my god gave unto me."

Or how about the modern day descendants of the people who gave you your morality...the Hebrews whom history waited to give the opportunity to show us all how you go from sacrifice of your own children to high morals to murder of the children of others..."combatant" children.

"Ye verily I sent my engines of war to bury the parents alive and so that my name would resound in glory my soldiers I caused to kill the children who would avenge their parents and whom in his wisdom Yahwe caused to have only stones to go against my mighty men. Who is greater than I, let him send his children to face my armies."

So long as we root for "our side"...we condemn our own children. No one has ever escaped from the brutality they unleashed in the name of victory, god and country. No one.



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