Who are the masters of war? As I have watched Spike TV's the Deadliest Warriors, I had a sense of bloodlust as I watched recreations of actual weapons used by the Samauri, the Vikings, Spartans and Ninjas, Knights and Pirates. It got me wondering about all the machinery of war. I recall the inquiry into the death of JFK and how his attempt to keep troops out of Vietnam, end the cold war with Russia was met with condemnation by those who fuel and feed the machinery of war. I cannot help but think that his efforts to dismantle the CIA and redirect funding away fromt he multi-billion dollar industry of war caused the conspiracy of his assassination.
We have these same bloodlusts for war today. Integrating and indoctrinating our youth with the weapons of war in the form of realistic video games like Halo, Call of Duty and others. It puts the weapon into the hands of children, like those young boys recruited to kill or be killed at tender young ages. It can be disturbing. We have all heard the many horror stories of real life executions where young boys were ordered to kill their brothers, their fathers or best friend to prove their loyalty to their recruiters. Another machination and casualty of war?
What is happening to our society as the desensitization of the meaning of war is being played out with young boys picking up their X-Box controllers and picking out their arsenal of weapons to go and play virtual war on a virtual battlefield? Is this the new machinery of war? Just some questions?
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