tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571516.post116314151004305047..comments2023-09-07T06:06:05.985-04:00Comments on The Inner Voice of the CrazyComposer: In Remembrance …Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14917517595461617547noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571516.post-1163307104064953502006-11-11T23:51:00.000-05:002006-11-11T23:51:00.000-05:00Thanks anonymous - I'll listen when I get a chance...Thanks anonymous - I'll listen when I get a chance.<BR/><BR/>Thank you, Latour, for your kind words, and for linking to my article. The original article was actually brought to my attention by my mother, which I neglected to mention in my original post and would like to credit her with since I likely would have missed it until it was too late (damn these timely topical issues [grin]).<BR/><BR/>It is true what you say about the senselessness of WWI, and how the Russian soldiers finally abandoned the front, though their doing so was ostensibly to support the Czarist efforts to maintain control and fend off the Menshaviks (who only became the Bolshaviks after the success of the revolution … the term “Menshavik” meant, literally, minority … guess what the other means … you got it) as they ousted the stagnant Romanov empire.<BR/><BR/>I have always wondered what would have happened had the United States maintained their Monroe Doctrine during this time rather than getting involved in WWI … who would have won, and what difference would it have made? If Germany hadn’t been forced into the punitive Treaty of Versailles, would that have – perhaps – taken the wind out of the sails of the National Socialists in Germany, since it was the treaty and the economic results of war reparations that resulted in an intense depression in Germany. If that hadn’t occurred, would there have been an emergence of such an evil ideology, hiding behind a veil of economic promises of delivering the nation from the hardships inflicted upon the Fatherland by the west through the punitive Treaty of Versailles.<BR/><BR/>Truly, I have never understood the stakes of the “Great War”; never have I been able to comprehend the pros and cons of a particular side being victorious, and that is disturbing. In war, such as WWII, it is usually – normally – supposed to be – easy to recognize who should win: there should be a moral reason attached to the cause. WWII was easy as it represented the freedom of humanity, not just the prevention of wholesale genocide, but the enslavement of anyone who wasn’t “in the image” of the nazi psychosis. <BR/><BR/>Yet, when I look at WWI and all that was lost, it all seems to be such a waste, and for what? This was the war that truly represents the death knoll for imperialism and the royalist societies, for it was a result of these that so many innocent young people went to their deaths, believing that they were dying for “King and country”.<BR/><BR/>This is why, in Commonwealth countries, we sing the anthem “God save the Queen” (now, then – during WWI & II it was “God save the King”). The reason – they need saving for having sent so many innocents to their deaths (WWII notwithstanding).<BR/><BR/>God save the Queen; God save George Bush; God save Dick Cheney; God save Donald Rumsfeld; God save Condoleezza Rice; … on second though … God save us all.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14917517595461617547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571516.post-1163300759772483522006-11-11T22:05:00.000-05:002006-11-11T22:05:00.000-05:00Excellent article... I linked to it on my blogIt i...Excellent article... I linked to it on my blog<BR/><BR/>It is sad to see Rememberance Day being used to drum up public support for imperialist wars. WWI was supposed to be the war to end all wars. That should be what we remember, and it should be peace that we look forward to on this day, not reaction and warmongering.brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00382415525528424220noreply@blogger.com