tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021468759553992081.post1614313957699958748..comments2023-06-03T07:46:46.395-07:00Comments on Mind of Mookie: Glad I'm a Boy and other happeningsMookiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01073027586188784701noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021468759553992081.post-82697575394396646992009-12-09T08:50:33.924-08:002009-12-09T08:50:33.924-08:00I know you meant this for the warfare post after r...I know you meant this for the warfare post after reading it over. Was kind of confused with your opening line about this one being a 'very interesting and well developed post'.<br /><br />That and to most readers your comment here (which I copy and pasted to the intended blog) might seem confusing given the nature of this particular post!Mookiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01073027586188784701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021468759553992081.post-21671831685886119592009-12-08T13:22:30.627-08:002009-12-08T13:22:30.627-08:00VERY interesting and well developed post! (And I&...VERY interesting and well developed post! (And I'm not just saying that because you said nice things about me). War indeed has run the gamut from being rape and pillage hordes of Vikings or Huns to 'the sport of kings' for European nobility. Some times massacres have been the norm, sometimes rituals with few deaths. Conflict is everywhere, how it gets handled has varied through history.<br /><br />I think you are absolutely right that what we call "war" is in many ways a political military operation. When politicians cease seeing their military as young men and women who should only be put in harms way and forced to do things that might bother them forever only when absolutely necessary, and instead see them as a "political tool" to achieve abstract goals, then it is an abuse of the military.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com