The whole world, I sense, is pretty baffled as to reluctance of the US and UK governments to call for cease fire in the Middle East. Why is that? It flies in the face of every accepted diplomatic protocol and just appears bizarre.
But if you think about it it doesn't seem so strange. All the evidence proves that neither Blair or Bush seem to think like most normal people. While the rest of the world hates and despises war and would do anything to avoid it, they see it as just another tactic to use. After all, they used it in Iraq as a political and business tool. Lebanon apparently doesn't have any oil or things to give away to Halliburton. It seems actually to be a war between people who want to kill each other. And remember, even if B+B aren't happy that people get killed, they certainly don't mind it. Even if we give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that they are men of conscience perhaps they are like those guys in gangster movies or spy shows whose first murder is just a rites of passage. It's often said that your first one is the worst one. After that it gets quite easy. Blair and Bush found that blowing up Afghan wedding parties and Baghdadi primary schools wasn't so bad after all - in fact it was all a bit like a video game. And when their opinion polls went up because of it...
I am assuming that The US especially is pretty happy for other people to take on problematic states and groupings in the middle east. It saves having to draft reservists and send them instead. Let's let the Israelis send their reservists to do the fighting. They are pretty keen and let's face it, they kind of owe us one.
It's odd logic where war is concerned but not without precedence. America has a habit of getting into foreign conflicts and refusing to accept that they might not win - hence Korea, Vietnam and Iraq.
However, eventually a cease fire will happen. It will even be brokered by the US and UK. But not yet. I just have a feeling that the truth is simpler than most people have assumed.
Recently my sister bought a Digital Cable Box, DVD player and VCR the other week, all for less than a hundred quid. What a bargain! Yesterday, I went to buy a box set of one of my favourite TV shows. After months of it being 25 quid I found that the price has doubled in every store. It was now 50 quid - twice as much as my sister's DVD player cost. This is the principle of corporate share price driven selling. There is no real money made in single item purchases like DVD players or Printers. The real cash is made in selling the repeat items. The software.
And the same counts for weapons manufacturers. It's all very well to sell a missile launcher, but your share price will suffer if the customer doesn't come back for more. You have to use the ink in your overpriced cartridge in order to have to buy another one. Ink, laser guided bombs, bullets, artillery shells. Whatever.
A cease fire too soon will mean less ordnance -software - used. Less profit and less orders for new, bigger better stuff. Let them empty out the warehouses a bit before we try to stop it.
But if you think about it it doesn't seem so strange. All the evidence proves that neither Blair or Bush seem to think like most normal people. While the rest of the world hates and despises war and would do anything to avoid it, they see it as just another tactic to use. After all, they used it in Iraq as a political and business tool. Lebanon apparently doesn't have any oil or things to give away to Halliburton. It seems actually to be a war between people who want to kill each other. And remember, even if B+B aren't happy that people get killed, they certainly don't mind it. Even if we give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that they are men of conscience perhaps they are like those guys in gangster movies or spy shows whose first murder is just a rites of passage. It's often said that your first one is the worst one. After that it gets quite easy. Blair and Bush found that blowing up Afghan wedding parties and Baghdadi primary schools wasn't so bad after all - in fact it was all a bit like a video game. And when their opinion polls went up because of it...
I am assuming that The US especially is pretty happy for other people to take on problematic states and groupings in the middle east. It saves having to draft reservists and send them instead. Let's let the Israelis send their reservists to do the fighting. They are pretty keen and let's face it, they kind of owe us one.
It's odd logic where war is concerned but not without precedence. America has a habit of getting into foreign conflicts and refusing to accept that they might not win - hence Korea, Vietnam and Iraq.
However, eventually a cease fire will happen. It will even be brokered by the US and UK. But not yet. I just have a feeling that the truth is simpler than most people have assumed.
Recently my sister bought a Digital Cable Box, DVD player and VCR the other week, all for less than a hundred quid. What a bargain! Yesterday, I went to buy a box set of one of my favourite TV shows. After months of it being 25 quid I found that the price has doubled in every store. It was now 50 quid - twice as much as my sister's DVD player cost. This is the principle of corporate share price driven selling. There is no real money made in single item purchases like DVD players or Printers. The real cash is made in selling the repeat items. The software.
And the same counts for weapons manufacturers. It's all very well to sell a missile launcher, but your share price will suffer if the customer doesn't come back for more. You have to use the ink in your overpriced cartridge in order to have to buy another one. Ink, laser guided bombs, bullets, artillery shells. Whatever.
A cease fire too soon will mean less ordnance -software - used. Less profit and less orders for new, bigger better stuff. Let them empty out the warehouses a bit before we try to stop it.
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