Leaks

I read one article about it and I can't bring myself to read a second yet.


I can't think about it tonight after such a long week. This is such a monumental failure that it's impossible for me to express my discontentment.

Anyone who's spouting opinions right now clearly has not sat down and considered the magnitude of the information contained therein. Perhaps they are plainly unwilling to do that. Hopefully this information will have the same effect on the military industrial complex as the subprime mortgages had on the financial sector. It obviously wouldn't be completely dissolved or removed because we need it. But it'll whittle it down and clean up the mess. I can only hope that's what it does. It had better...

We'll need to wait for the public to digest the information. Thank you Wikileaks for shining the light in the face of an establishment with so many faces. This is the equivalent of Uncle Sam posing for a mug shot.

For fucking shame, you militaristic, industrialized bigots.

It should be interesting to see how the media giants dance to the broken beat of the upcoming social drumming. I won't be listening, though. It's already really, really loud here. Did you know I can play the drums?

It looks like it's gotten farther along than I had suspected. At least once in this blog, I think I've touched on the mentality of a soldier and what it must take to justify a successful career over time. With so many generations living who have fought in battles and wars, which generation is possibly bold enough to choose not to fight? By the time a soldier is in an Official position to make that decision for a younger generation, the wheels of the military establishment are simply spinning too fast for any sort of emotional stream to penetrate the construction of such a machine. If seasoned military veterans had a reputation for being sensitive and emotionally thoughtful, then maybe such an undertaking would be possible. But I suspect at least one person other than myself finds humor in that concept.

Follow me here. When a person chooses a career as serious as deadly matters, when technology can protect a soldier better and longer than ever, when a nation's population is so bombarded with breaking news information produced by entertainment psychologists, what soldier is seriously going to refuse to fight just "for the greater good?" All that person thinks they might stands to lose is... well... let's think about it: they think they're about to lose their own pride by not fighting along with the respect of everyone he or she has ever known. What sort of a fighter stops fighting? You don't tell a doctor that medicine isn't a good idea after all. You don't tell an accountant that debt doesn't matter. After years of training and battle, does the soldier's sense of duty ever deteriorate over time? I'd say it seldom does. Is it likely that the companionship experienced during times of training and battle came to define a major part of their lives? I think it's very likely. And is it possible that due to the incredibly intense and often highly dramatic nature of those circumstances that the person will come to assume those emotions as a foundation for making other decisions of a lesser magnitude in the future? I'm not gonna answer that one for you. Any human who has ever felt strongly about anything has dealt with the pangs of emotion associated with similar circumstances down the road. Humans love eachother. And watching other humans we care about die is a serious matter which 9.9 times out of 10 will affect the way we live our lives thereafter. Try to tell an American soldier that the battle his best friend just died in was not justified at the political level. Let's see how much conjecture takes place before his or her emotional level overheats. After all, you're not only calling into question their own personal involvement in the affair, but you're potentially tarnishing the legacy of their friend for dying for an unjust cause. What respectable broadcasting company exists that's willing to cover emotional topics like this with proper allowances for time, explanation and the emotional resolutions required to develop a conversation like that to ANY kind of a conclusion? Not a fucking one... not a single fucking company will do it. But you can believe every company will have the newest, brightest animations of spinning globes and million-dollar personas ready to present exquisite 3-minute long, diluted opinions right before they bend over and take it up the ass by Johnson & Johnson, Geiko or whatever other company approves of their moronic fact-hatchery.

But it seems it hasn't stopped there. The older generation of leaders apparently has overlooked the true well being of the soldiers. And in their own ongoing struggle to solidify their legacies as successful leaders in battle or otherwise, to their progeny and their egotistical Beyond, perhaps they have now for the first time officially sought battle when it was anything but necessary. Have the most steadfast survivors actually forgotten that the best chance for survival always exists where bullets do not?

If the common tendency between humans leaned towards radical, violent aggression in the majority of everyday circumstances, perhaps something like the conclusions I'm drawing from these documents could be understood more easily. But it does not. And that leaves me only with the notion that unfortunately, several people who are in positions to make the most powerful rational decisions in human history are completely unable because they don't feel they have the ability to reject the suggested, the embedded reactionary course of action. They are unwilling to temper the drumming of a media gone awry. This is a serious problem.

This is such a foul show.

I can't think about it anymore tonight. I sincerely hope this news remains one of the most important stories for at least as many years as the Iraq War has been active. It will be for me. I can't speak for the rest of you.

I'm almost shaking just thinking my way through this.