Battle Not with Terrorists, Lest Ye Become a Terrorist

“Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

The above picture is a pile of corpses being readied for cremation in Dresden during WWII. These people were among the more than 22,000 victims of the infamous allied bombing of the "Florence on the Elbe". In high school I was shown a video of naked Jewish corpses being bulldozed into mass graves in Nazi concentration camps. I was never shown the piles of bodies created by U.S. and British bombing raids. The United States also killed over 100,000 people by bombing Tokyo. The bombardment of Tokyo is known as "the firebombing" because the paper city erupted into flames which killed far more people than the actual bombing. Here is the charred remains of a woman and her child:

The United States demanded that the Japanese Empire surrender unconditionally. This meant that the Emperor himself must be deposed. But the stupidly proud Japanese government refused to hand over the man they claimed to be a descendant of their god. So, the Americans dropped atomic weapons on defenseless men, women, and children; killing at least 150,000. (By the way, after the Japanese surrendered, they were allowed to keep their emperor anyway.)

There is no doubt that the Nazi government was evil. There is no doubt that the imperial Japanese government was evil. And there is no doubt that the U.S. government was and is evil. In 2006, the U.S. destroyed a school in Pakistan in order to kill the headmaster. 69 children were killed. That's more than were killed in Newtown, Connecticut and in a country we are supposedly allied with.

Dictionary.com defines terrorism as "the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes." It appears the United States is the world's largest and most dangerous terrorist organization. They have done battle with monsters. The abyss gazes into them.