New thoughts?? Currently President George W. Bush is carrying out a fiasco in Iraq that is.............blah blah blah
Currently?? You call this new thought?? Bush hasn't been President for over 6 months. Do you just copy and paste without reading the content? Time for puppy to wake up? On Jul 23, 10:53 am, puppy <[email protected]> wrote: > Tragedies Great and Small > > Here are some new thoughts: Please comment. > > Its been estimated that 160 million people perished in the wars, > genocide's and starvation in the last century. It was the most > disastrous century in the history of mankind, despite the introduction > of democracy. A vast majority of these catastrophes were cause by > dictators, and political men who were suspected of being mentally > incapacitated, cognitive impaired and had dangerous demented > intentions. They were the ones who, while invoking the name of God > and Nation, gave orders to the military. Who being immune from the > human emotions of guilt, would carry out the orders of the state > without question. “I was just following orders” (of the state) was > the plea of military war criminals. Claiming protection under this > point of informal international code of military justice and conduct. > One of these military principals-who gave the orders-was Sir > Douglas, 1st Earl, Viscount Dawick, Baron Haig of Bemersyde, an ample > titled royalty and a graduate of Sandhurst, a British military > academy. In a painting, by John Singer Sergeant, Sir Douglas Haig > is in uniform and has the artificial pose and the aloof look of > English aristocracy class. > Haig was the Commander in Chief of the British forces at the two > battles of The Somme, in France during World War Two. Where 420,00 > British troops were needlessly slaughter in battles that ended in a > stalemates. Neither the Germans, the British and the French could > claim victory. > After the First World War a French psychologist wrote a > psychological study of the leaders of Germany, France, Italy and the > United Kingdom- the main adversaries of World War One-and found that > they: the leaders, had exhibited the mental symptoms of psychotics > and sociopaths. His study showed the leaders had the classic symptoms > of megalomaniacs i.e. obsessed with their own power; and omnipotence > i.e. believing they were able to do anything. It was the politicians > who gave orders to military men such as Sir Douglas Haig who carried > them out without question, moral culpability or human > sentiments. > Intermingling with the greater tragedies and atrocities were the > multitudes of smaller tragedies involving hapless and innocent > civilians caught in the tides of war, the genocide's, and the > starvation of the last century. They were the salt of the earth. > They had families. They loved and were belove. There deaths almost > past unnoticed are being remembered in this article. > Howard Fast, a former communist, humanist and pacifist writer > traveled across India during World War Two and when his the train > stopped at a remote station. Fast got out and strolled around where, > he noticed, about thirty yards from the station, a tribe of small > people were huddled together on a bit of empty ground. The men were > no taller than five feet and the women were a few inches less. The > men wore string loin cloths, the women some sort of bark skirts. The > children were naked. The men carried spears with fire harden points. > and small hide covered shields. Who were they?, Fast thought. > Two uniform station attendants had appointed themselves as guards > for this strange tribe, told him that they had come down from the > hills because the game was gone and somehow heard that there was a > thing (the train} that would take them somewhere, else where-all of > this understood from sign language. No one knew a word of their > language: no one knew who they were and where they came from or what > their circumstances had been. > They were rather beautiful people. with fine features, pale > brownish skins, and on their faces expressions of heartbreaking > hopelessness, all of them pressed together, clinging to each other. > The indian station attendance had found some rice and fruit for them > but not enough to keep them alive. > And when Fast got ot Calcutta he wrote, “After seeing the great > crowds of the poor and suffering masses...and the people so gentle, > warm, so long suffering. No one comes in contact with the improvised > and starving indians with sensing that knowledge of suffering.” > In yet another enormous crime against hapless and innocent people > was committed by the political leadership (not the people) of the > United Kingdom. Who in 1944, near the end of World War Two, fearing > the Assamese and Bengalese in countries to the west of India and > bordering on Burma, might welcome the Japanese-who were close to > victory in Burma- cornered the rice market with the collaboration of > Muslim rice dealers and stored the rice in warehouses. While 6 > million Assamses and Begalses men, women and children starved to > death. There is ample documentation of this atrocity in the files of > Calcutta University to prove that British the colonial empire was > involved in a in a crime so terrible that it rivaled Hitler’s > Holocaust. > In the Vietnam War-another fiasco by the politically demented- > another small tragedy is told by an North Vietnamese soldier: “The > worst memory I had was seeing a woman whose legs had been blown off by > a shrapnel bomb. She was lying in the road alive. She was beyond > pain, but she knew she was going to die, and I knew there was nothing > I could do for her. She asked me to kiss her. I did. I will never > forget that.” > The catastrophes of the last century are written in the blood of > millions and millions hapless and innocent people. Currently > President George W. Bush is carrying out a fiasco in Iraq that is > responsible for 3,600 dead Americans and at least 160,000 Iraqi men, > women and children. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
