For many of the world's leaders, when diplomacy stalls and sanctions fail to have the desired impact, war remains the only means through the impasse. Along with it comes the breathtaking development of a nation's arsenal technologically under the pressure of impending annihilation. The Apollo program in the Cold War is a case in point. Human's require to be motivated. Once motivated we become useful once more to the world, even productive. I once met a man called Kim whilst kayaking on an ice water lake in Wisconsin a couple of weeks after 9/11. He was a veteran of the Far Eastern Campaigns of WWII. Even 50 years later, he broke down and wept at the inhumanity of men killing each other with their bare hands if necessary, the sight of the mutilated corpses strewn around. Half a century is but nothing in terms of healing veterans.
The horror of war is fact, we find ourselves in an era where 'surgical strikes', GPS guided ordinance and on-board reconnaissance yield only sanitised images of war. The true end-users of the UK's single greatest export: Arms; feel the sharp pain of defeat in the face of a superior force. When confronted with this in the media, support for military campaigns ebbs away, the greatest opponent to our might is our own

ambivalence towards its use, a free hand to the tin-pot dictators of the Banana Republics of this era our time. May history judge us harshly, i'd rather see grandfathers weep at the horrors of fixing the problems of our world than condemn us all to the indifference of other people's suffering. The recruiting sergeant for Al-Qaeda isn't the Iraq War, they hated Saddam as much if not more than George Bush Senior did, if his recent portrayal in the film W is anything to go by. Al-Qaeda's recruiting Sergeant remains the constant Sectarian nonsense of needless retaliatory War between Israel and her neighbours.
What are we teaching children; Stay home, be ignorant of the suffering of others many of them former British Colonies and our subjects - A world which we organised but lost interest in; Start something but don't finish it; Indulge yourself and care not for others less fortunate and what have we spawned nothing but illegitimate, ill-educated, knife wielding asbo chavs, comprehensively. Its never right to kill but under the definitions of a just war it is necessary. The moral argument has been dumbed down like everything else to cover only the first half of that statement - the completely obvious point that killing is