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This is the lie that it is the basis of the national mythos; the “glory” and the patriotism that masks the real sounds and the real consequences of war: the unending cyle of violence and renewed oppression to see that the vanquished do not seek and achieve revenge, but it is a fool’s game, as we read here:

(DV) Hedges: War — Realities and Myths

The vanquished know the essence of war — death. They grasp that war is necrophilia. They see that war is a state of almost pure sin with its goals of hatred and destruction. They know how war fosters alienation, leads inevitably to nihilism, and is a turning away from the sanctity and preservation of life. All other narratives about war too easily fall prey to the allure and seductiveness of violence, as well as the attraction of the godlike power that comes with the license to kill with impunity.

As the Radical Orthodoxy theologians would tell us, our trust in the “assumed truths” , based on “Enlightenment” wisdom, “national interest” (which assumes also that WE are the only “nation” woth being “national”) and becoming over the years, “the way it is” and “what everone knows”, and evil holds sway until the gospel enters in, and exposes the foolishness of it all.