The Conduct of War

Put on a jacket - made in Vietnam. Buy a car - made in Japan. Have a beer - brewed in Germany. Buy a cell phone or some piece of shlock for the bathroom - made in China. So what do all the wars mean? I'll tell you: someone got richer someone got dead someone got maimed and someone got left with bad karma. For me bad karma. When I think about the war I feel like an alcoholic coming off a bender. I become physically and emotionally drained because I'm unsettled and disturbed by the fierceness and the darkness of war and of what I had to do to stay alive. I could have been out surfing sailing fishing doing anything else but that. However I chose it. I signed on for it. I believed JFK and his Green Beret / Peace Corps' bullshit the Buddha / the Bad Buddha the inverse universes.