ON THIS DAY
On this day in 1941, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. One of the greater differences of this transit of Pluto through Sagittarius is that we have an enemy and are for all intents and purposes at war with a country which does not do us the honor of declaring war.
One of the real battles that is going on in the world at the moment is for proper conduct of war ... a tradition hard won through centuries on Europe's fields of battle where a man is identified with a uniform, declares his intentions, alerts the enemy and conducts battle in the open and only against other uniformed men, properly identified.
Part of bringing the Third World into harmony with values of the First World would be to instill some of this tradition into the practice of war. The Geneva Convention is one of the more salient components of this hard won tradition. If one reads military history, one is struck throughout by the reluctance of most men to wage war; however, while it is still a necessity there were some rules of conducts which made it, ironically, almost civilized.
Holding little children hostage, poisoning political opponents and ramming airplanes into buildings without a formal declaration of war are detestible and cowardly acts that belong in the repertoire of deranged teenagers or Livia, conniving wife of Caesar Augustus, who spawned Tiberius the father of deranged Caligula and his son Nero.
On this day in 1941, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. One of the greater differences of this transit of Pluto through Sagittarius is that we have an enemy and are for all intents and purposes at war with a country which does not do us the honor of declaring war.
One of the real battles that is going on in the world at the moment is for proper conduct of war ... a tradition hard won through centuries on Europe's fields of battle where a man is identified with a uniform, declares his intentions, alerts the enemy and conducts battle in the open and only against other uniformed men, properly identified.
Part of bringing the Third World into harmony with values of the First World would be to instill some of this tradition into the practice of war. The Geneva Convention is one of the more salient components of this hard won tradition. If one reads military history, one is struck throughout by the reluctance of most men to wage war; however, while it is still a necessity there were some rules of conducts which made it, ironically, almost civilized.
Holding little children hostage, poisoning political opponents and ramming airplanes into buildings without a formal declaration of war are detestible and cowardly acts that belong in the repertoire of deranged teenagers or Livia, conniving wife of Caesar Augustus, who spawned Tiberius the father of deranged Caligula and his son Nero.
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