Fanatics,

have the great ability,

to make beautiful things uglier than anybody.

To degrade their own causes more fully than any enemy.

So it really isn't about good guys and bad guys...

it's about who has,

the most fanatics on their side.

Many have tried to figure out,

what made America just,

(in the Second World War.)

since there's no disputing that they were just.

But given that America,

did the same things unto,

its enemies, that it claimed to be fighting against.

(its enemies for doing...)

It is hard to reconcile correctness

with rightness.

I suppose,

In the end,

it boils to this:

America, didn't have as many fanatics as the other side...

By the by;

Heroes and extremists and renegades must never be confused for fanatics.

They are as the difference between war and murder;

Which can be thin as high school papers,

or wide as words much wider,

but rarely in between.

Even knowing this, however,

I am still upset as Marty that liberalism lost its moral authority,

trading it for smug perspective somewhere back in the pike.

Wars can never be just,

toward the end,

as the losing side all become fanatics...

Ideology and propaganda, are not, as many think,

the engines of fanaticism,

as much as what propaganda and ideology,

hope to achieve.

These ends, of course, are to breed a sense of being victim,

which is the rationale for

(sometimes pre-emptive)

self defense.

And so although,

democracy, communism, or the empire,

can be sufficient ideals for which to send

another's sons to die.

To abandon all scruple;

whether Geneva, conscience, or Ruple,

requires your farm be in the crosshairs.

And all the things you'll be willing to do,

(and then really do.)

when you've got everything to lose,

will make your victorious enemies into fanatics too.

and so on.

And that, that's why

wars should end quickly,

(should they begin at all:)

not because the longer they wage,

the more people die,

but because the greater their length,

the more fanatics are born.

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