Coffee Break

[mnaz]

"But it just goes back and forth... how can you even begin to solve it that way?"

He says: "I tell you, you're wasting too much time on this war. It's always been like that; a simple fact of life, this war". And he's right. I can see that. Once you dig a trench, that trench is it, and the view is of splendid fresh burial all around.

"But didn't Camus write a brilliant allegorical refutation of the spread of fascism and corporate war, set somewhere in Algeria?".... "Probably", he says.

[mistertroll]

Once you dig a trench, that trench is it, and the view is of splendid fresh burial all around.

and the only escape
to be cast out.

[mnaz]

or cast in....

something about a bullet pace and exploding flesh and fresh dug earth, the smell of it, the touch of it; something stunningly elemental...

ahhh, but that was a different, more primitive era of warfare, wasn't it?

[mtmynd]

mnaz: "more primitive era of warfare.."

the tools of war change but the rules of war do not - win or lose like any other game, even if it means annihilation.

interesting piece your wrote here, friend.

[stilltrucking]

Mnaz wrote
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He says: "I tell you, you're wasting too much time on this war. It's always been like that; a simple fact of life, this war".

"Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this. -Gustave Flaubert"


War is a game okay
A hell of a game for some
and good business for others.


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sorry mnaz,
I hate it when my rambles are longer than your orginal post
thanks for writing.

[Lightning Rod]

as Molly Ivins was fond of saying
"when you find yourself in a hole, quit digging."

[hester_prynne]

Walk away from it.

H