Oedipal Conclusion

When I was younger, I thought going into the military was the right thing to do and I joined voluntarily. I saw it as an adventure and I was anxious to jump in and learn what 'being a man' was all about. Like Hemingway's fictional alter ego, Nick Adams in The Sun Also Rises, I wanted to get into the game and experience life to the hilt. Not unlike Nick Adams in the final chapter of the book, I also came to see things very differently on the far side of the journey. During the Vietnam era, I had a very low opinion of draft dodgers, draft card burners, and war protestors in general. I assumed they were mostly spoiled and cowardly college wimps who were too good to get their hands dirty giving something back to their country and were mostly looking for an easy pretext to meet women. But I was naive and wholly ignorant of what was really taking place. More importantly, I had no idea who was manipulating these events from behind the scenes. I unthinkingly accepted the cover story that it was those Godless communists who were agitating to take over all of Asia and they had to be stopped at all costs. I was brainwashed. I didn't know that all my sources of "news" information-Time magazine, Newsweek, the New York Times, Meet the Press, Firing Line (with William F. Buckley Jr.), CBS Reports, 60 Minutes, etc., etc., etc. were part of a huge propaganda machine that collectively acted in concert to mold my thinking into accepting the cover story. Nothing much has changed since then. Today, young military recruits and their families and their friends continue to unthinkingly accept the cover story that the American military must be the Good Guys of the world-doing the Right Thing-and whoever we're fighting against are automatically assumed to be the Bad Guys. In the mid 1960's, I believed Illuminati gofers like Lyndon Johnson, Dean Rusk, and Robert MacNamara when they told me about the Gulf of Tonkin 'torpedo boat' attacks against US Naval ships (it never happened) and of the "domino theory" which claimed that all other countries in southeast Asia would fall to the the Evil Empire of Communism and if we didn't stop them in Vietnam. At the time, I didn't know that the president of the United States and his entire cabinet were, in fact, covert agents for international corporations and power groups who wanted war. War, I later discovered, is a money maker, a big money maker for corporations with names like General Electric, or Dupont, or Chase Manhattan Bank, or Rockwell International, or Merck, or AT&T, or IBM, or the dozens of other Illuminated corporate giants who attend those Bilderberger get-togethers every year and make plans -for you and I. Manufacturers of planes, tanks, battleships, missiles, rockets, bullets, assault rifles, mortars, field rations, uniforms, boots, medical supplies, prosthetics, tents, mobile river crossing equipment, helicopters, gun ships, radar, missile tracking systems, high tech electronics, spy satellites, etc., etc. love war. Oil companies love war. The CIA loves war. MI5 loves war. The Mossad loves war. These covert groups, working for the Illuminated Ones, have been responsible for instigating most of the conflicts in the world. War makes money and consolidates power into the hands of the elite manipulators who always remain hidden from our view. They place their Front men and Mouthpieces out there for us to see and debate about and send our letters to, but they themselves always remain in disguise, usually seen as the most genteel, civilized, and honored of humanity's flock-like the royal family of England. Orchestrated wars also provides a convenient cover for drug trafficking, which again, you can pin the tail on the CIA- the biggest player on the planet. While war robs ordinary, mostly poor, American families of their sons (and now their daughters), it makes indentured slaves of the rest of us. Who pays out the money that fills the coffers of war profiteers? The government.