history teaches ...

 .. .. .. .. .. (morbid silence)

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I grew up as a so-called baby-boomer, in a period I'd characterise as a 'post-WW2 peace-dividend' attempt at normalcy.

Of course the peace didn't last (assuming peace existed at all, recall the 'Cold War'). My consciousness was raised by the spectre of possibly being conscripted as cannon-fodder for the Yanks' claimed war to prevent the yellow (going red) peril of Commies coming at us via Vietnam. The Vietnam War ended with the defeat of the US in 1975[1].

But even before the Vietnam imbroglio, (history teaches; I could hardly'a noticed), we had a Malayan Emergency[2,3] and the Korean War[4]. After their Vietnam failure, the US switched a lot'a its attention to South America; we (in our wide-brown Aus) had a period of relative calm, largely - and sadly - at a lot'a South Americans' expense. Any 'calm before the storm' was broken by incidents in '91 (Kuwait[5]), then in the FYRs[6] and such continued through the 90s, but all pretences were finally shattered by "Shockin' Whore" aka murder for oil[7] beginning in Mar'03.

As a constant blood-bath background, we can only watch with horror as the cruelly misnamed IDF (it's actually 'offence') continues to commit genocide in and around ex-Palestine[8]. I say that 'we can only watch with horror' because there's apparently no way of stopping Israel murdering for land & water.

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Some time in the early 70s I had an argument with my then-girlfriend; my stance was that Israel was in a "David v. Goliath" struggle against the nasty surrounding Arabs.

Then after that, as mentioned, I enjoyed a relatively peaceful interregnum, as I continued to develop my career, formed a family and built the family home am Bergle.

The interregnum was only relatively peaceful, as it was punctuated by events like the "Highway of Death(Kuwait to Basra)" horror, and watching as 'NATO' (aka US thugs plus coerced accomplices) bombed the s**t out'a bits'a the FYRs.

Then in the run-up to "Shockin' Whore", the US thugs plus the next band of coerced accomplices, aka coalition of the killing's illegal invasion of Iraq (now turned brutal occupation) we, the anti-wars cried "No War!" and "Leave it to Blix!" Nevertheless and despite our best efforts (and inaction from the UN), that war started on 19Mar'03 and continues, according to the ICH site as of today, with the Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In U.S. War On Iraq "1,191,216" and the Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In U.S. War And Occupation Of Iraq 3,993.

Whether these numbers are right or wrong and if so then by how much hardly matters. What we can see, if we look with wide-open eyes, is a filthy and hideous slaughter, yet another genocide, in this case to enable oil-theft.

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All of the above has a point, and the point is this: "I WAS WRONG!"

I was wrong in the 1st place about Israel.

I was wrong in the 2nd place in having any faith in the UN.

I was wrong in the 3rd place in having ever assumed any worthwhile purpose behind US military adventures; the "Shockin' Whore" episode and aftermath demonstrating, for all the world to see, the criminal intent of the US 'élites' and the murdering methods of their military, each more dishonourable than the other.

That the UN is corrupt is proven by Israel, which claims the UN as its source of legitimacy - but then ignores any and all UN resolutions which it "doesn't like," the number of such ignored resolutions being many and varied. Then, there're the resolutions vetoed by the US.

That the UN is ineffective is similarly proven by Israel, which has for 60+ long years carried out a genocide against the legitimate former owner/residents of the land that they (illegally!) occupy.

That the UN is both corrupt and ineffective is proven (yet again) by the US and its actions vis-à-vis Iraq, thanks (but "No, thanks!") to GWBush&Co.

As far as 'history teaches' goes, we can see that *nothing* has been learnt, except possibly by the US, who/which, we can see, apparently set out to do better than Hitler by repeating fewer of his mistakes - but doing essentially the same filthy stuff; mass-murdering for spoil.

Nobody starts a war, unless a) they think they can win, and b) they think it's worth it.

Q: How does the US win the wars it starts?

A: By increasing its resource rip-offs.

Q: How does Israel win its wars?

A: By increasing its territory.

Q: Who loses these wars?

A: The innocent wronged, plundered and murdered collaterals.

Finally, in the lead up to and following "Shockin' Whore", I saw what I'd missed before, that absolutely wicked happenings had been going on all along, essentially in plain sight - but hidden by massive, revolting and lying propaganda, sourced in Washington when not Hollywood and/or Madison Ave., and brought to us courtesy of a (venal!) MSM.

Silly me; I had assumed that what I got as 'news' was the truth. How devastating - how naïve.

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Now I recently asked myself "How could I get it so wrong?"

And the answer came to me in an astoundingly bright flash: I get most'a my info from the AusBC, and lately also from SBS.

The AusBC and SBS are conduits for lying propaganda.

So Q: Are the AusBC and SBS biased?

A: Yes, and against the truth.

Shoot the messengers!

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Ref(s):

[1] [Vietnam War]

[2] [Malayan Emergency]

[3] [Jungle warfare]

[4] [Korean War]

[5] [Gulf War]

[6] [Yugoslav wars]

[7] [Iraq]

[8] 'Typically' Israeli?

«The Irgun was the armed expression of the nascent ideology of Revisionist Zionism founded by Ze'ev Jabotinsky. He expressed this ideology as "every Jew had the right to enter Palestine; only active retaliation would deter the Arabs and the British; only Jewish armed force would ensure the Jewish state". Initially, a central part of their efforts included attacks against Palestinian Arabs, but it increasingly shifted to attacks against the British. Some of the better-known and more infamous attacks by Irgun were the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on 22 July 1946 and the Deir Yassin massacre (perpetrated together with the Stern Gang) on 9 April 1948. In the West, Irgun was described as a terrorist organization by The New York Times newspaper, and by the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry. Irgun attacks prompted a formal declaration from the World Zionist Congress in 1946, which strongly condemned "the shedding of innocent blood as a means of political warfare".

Irgun was a political predecessor to Israel's right-wing Herut (or "Freedom") party, which led to today's Likud party. Likud has led or been part of most Israeli governments since 1977.»

[Irgun]

PS Note: See some Zionists 'strongly condemned "the shedding of innocent blood as a means of political warfare".' Well then, why don't they stop? Q: Just why does USrael murder for spoil? A: Because they can get away with it. And Q: Whose (bloody!) fault is that? A: The electors in these (and other; UK & Aus say) so-called democracies. People (I like to say sheople®), who don't - or won't - wake up and listen, and having heard, move effectively to stop the killing.

Once and for all: NO MORE WAR!