“You can’t build a nation at gunpoint”

War is waged by people in suits who peruse accounts and numbers, statistics and costs, benefits, namely their own. A person is nothing more than a numerical figure to such people. A figure that can be added or subtracted. 

Their world is one of illusion and reality mixed seamlessly. To them there is the 1% and then there are the 0%, the rest. Their’s is a zero sum game. Their desires are there own, for themselves, and at all costs.

These people are human but they are not humane. The are mortal but have gods on their sides. For every generation has its suits and seamless integration of engineers and accountants. These are not the movers nor are they the shakers.

They are the destroyers. They are the ones who piss in their pants to stay warm. And no matter how much you say, no matter how much you try to make them understand, they will not. They cannot. Because theirs is the world of numbers and probabilities. There is no winning. There is only more, or there is less.

And on their side of the table are those who believe that wars are winnable.