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War Making 101 - A User's Manual

War Making 101 - A User’s Manual

Rule No. 1- Develop a tradition of militarism over time.

That brings us to Rule No. 2 - When you’re the meanest, toughest, baddest guy in the neighborhood, you gotta show it by beating up on a weakling occasionally. Otherwise no one will take you seriously, and someone else might try to challenge your supremacy. That’s how a local godfather does it in my city of Chicago. It works the same on the global stage as it does on the South Side here.

Rule No. 3 - Write it all down clearly and in detail. That way everyone can read it and understand you mean business. What better way to scare shaky allies and intimidate and deter other nations thinking about defying us to forget about it or we’ll beat up on them. It works most of the time.

Rule No. 4 - Just in case anyone still misunderstands, ratchet up the rhetoric, make it even meaner and tougher and start beating the war drums to announce you’re planning to demonstrate your seriousness. That should get everyone’s full attention.

Rule No. 5 - After putting your intentions clearly in writing and showing you mean business, the next step is scaring the public by choosing a "target country" and convincing them it threatens our security and welfare. You explain you’re trying to reason with it, but if it won’t listen, force may be necessary as a last resort. But not to worry. We’ll only do this for our own safety and security. If you do this well enough (and these guys are experts, they’ve had so much practice), you hope the public will go along with your madness even if things don’t go well and despite what your real objectives are.

Rule No. 6 - First the rule and then the message from it. The rule is: when you’ve got ’em, use ’em. Of course, that means using whatever most destructive or high tech weapons you have, especially if the target country only has lesser ones. It also means: what’s the point of having ’em if you can’t or don’t use ’em. The message then is: toxic radiation is good for you. That must be what they’re selling because the US has now stated its intent to use industrial strength nuclear bombs in any future wars if it chooses to. Can they really sell this line of sheer madness? They’re trying, and I don’t hear anyone screaming about it yet.

Rule No. 7 (the last one) - Your manual is almost complete, and you’re about to become as expert at this game as the big boys actually playing it. The only step left is to do at home everything you want to do abroad without having to nuke the public to sell it. Scaring hell out of them should do the trick.

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