Don't you win a war by killing as many of the enemy as possible? / Or is there a sweet spot-number? / What constitutes a foul?

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Confused: So, how many dead enemy soldiers is a good thing?
Is there some kind of honor system
That I'm unaware of?
Would 300 dead Russian soldiers be OK?
200?
Don't you win a war by killing as many of the enemy as possible?
Or is there a sweet spot-number?
What constitutes a foul?
Or do the rules change as we go?


War expert: We'll get back to you on that.


C.: What if chemical weapons are used?


W.E.: A Time Out will be called. There will be an investigation and a cover-up. The perpetrator will be shamed.


C.: What if one side goes nuclear?


W.E.: We'll get back to you on that.


C.: How high tech can we go?


W.E: There is no limit there.


C.: Are robots OK?


W.E.: Absolutely not. Well, wait a second.
(Hey, Daddy, can we fight with robots?)


C.: How about satellites?


W.E.: No satellites except for intel.
No space weapons . . .


C.: (Ohhhhhhh K.) Are land mines OK?


W.E.: Anti-vehicle mines are OK.
Just not personnel.


C.: But there are personnel in the vehicles.


W.E.: As long as vehicles are the intended target, killing and maiming is tolerated.


C.: Is there a manual for dos and don'ts in war?


W.E.: Every country has its own dos and don'ts.


C.: Is it OK to attack a country with 200,000+ soldiers
If you call it a 'special military operation'
And the people you're attacking are Nazi sympathizers?


W.E.: If you are Russia. If you are America, they have to be terrorists or "bad guys". We have time for one more question.


C.: Can wars be resolved peacefully?


W.E.: Theoretically. We'll have to refer you to the Peace Experts.

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Authors Website: https://garylindorff.wordpress.com

Authors Bio:

Gary Lindorff is a poet, writer, blogger and author of five nonfiction books, three collections of poetry, "Children to the Mountain", "The Last recurrent Dream" (Two Plum Press), "Conversations with Poetry (coauthored with Tom Cowan), and a memoir, "Finding Myself in Time: Facing the Music". Lindorff calls himself an activist poet, channeling his activism through poetic voice. He also writes with other voices in other poetic styles: ecstatic, experimental and performance and a new genre, sand-blasted poems where he randomly picks sentence fragments from books drawn from his library, lists them, divides them into stanzas and looks for patterns. Sand-blasted poems are meant to be performed aloud with musical accompaniment.


He is a practicing dream worker(with a strong, Jungian background) and a shamanic practitioner. His shamanic work is continually deepening his partnership with the land. This work can assume many forms, solo and communal, among them: prayer, vision questing, ritual sweating, and sharing stories by the fire. He is a born-pacifist and attempts to walk the path of non-violence believing that no war is necessary or inevitable.