Bleeding Syria, Meet Bleeding Kansas

My last article about United States history left out one of the government’s greatest achievements: A civil war that was the bloodiest and heaviest in casualties than any other war in U.S. history. There were so many dead, to this day, we still don’t know how many died but it could be as high as 750,000. That’s higher than World War Two which had weapons not even in the planning stages during the Civil War. Indeed, we ARE “The Greatest Nation On Earth” if we are discussing numbers of dead racked up during a civil war.

Why am I bringing this up now? Because there is an interesting dynamic going on with the way our government sees the Syrian Civil War. The United States government seems wholly unable to understand the concept and motivation of revenge. This is because the government thinks everyone sees things as they do geopolitically. That is, everyone is motivated by philosophic raw sewage that percolates from the doleful cesspools of government-subsidized “think tanks”. And “think tanks” they are since septic tanks are the most astute comparison between the two.

Look, this can go on for the next twenty years. See here, our Civil War actually began in the 1850s with Bleeding Kansas. We know the attacks from al-Qaida began in the early 1990s and they’re still in the game, too. And that was all motivated by revenge. We like to think humanity is somewhat different than the 1800s. How so, when we have the SAME government that waged a total war against its own people? Who are we to criticize Bashar al-Assad? Look what we did to our own people! We came up with the idea of destroying entire cities in that war. That was the very birth of an idea that led directly to the creation of the atomic bomb.

The United States government, with the help of Europe, has set into motion a chain of events that will always cause these terrorist attacks to occur. Every “retaliation” (revenge) for these attacks will kill people that the members of those peoples’ clans and tribes must get revenge for. That is the cohesive agreement in clans and tribes: An attack upon one must be avenged by all. I’d say by now, there’s probably several thousand men that are bound by ancient codes to avenge the deaths of thousands of others. And this is not hard to comprehend. We did this in Bleeding Kansas! Our own Civil War spawned these types of attacks over and over again.

So wake up, the world. This isn’t going away because you sit down and hammer out some bogus peace treaty or cease-fire. Huh, treaties are made to be broken and no one knows that better than the United States government. They only thing is, they just don’t get it when that works both ways in the quest for revenge.

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