Never In A Fair Fight!

I've told this story before, but I'll tell it again:

Daniel Boone, an American legend and frontiersman, was captured and lived with the Shawnee in captivity for some seven years if I remember my history correctly.

He met the future amazing leader of the Shawnee, Tecumseh, when he was just aged seven. While together near a stream of water, Dan told Tecumseh how white folks do business. He held out one hand to Tecumseh to shake his and kept his other hand behind his back. When Tecumseh reached for Dan's hand, Dan grabbed it hard, pulled him in and off balance, while swining a knife from his other hand which he had held behind his back, and put it to Tecumseh's throat. He had a hearty laugh. Tecumseh thought it was a disgusting display.

I believe that is the moral high ground I hear all the folks around here talking about when they discuss Iraq and the U.S. regaining its moral high ground. The U.S. has forgotten how to keep their knife hand behind their back and now just do business openly in such manners. I guess that's the U.S. moral high ground folks keep talking about.

By now, I'm sure, you've all heard about the recent invasion of Gaza by Israel because Gaza militants have been shooting rockets into Israel. Here, I will tell you an interesting story I heard.

Israel, in it's founding some 60 years ago, was given the opportunity for peace. But its founders thought that peace basically makes a nation fat and lazy. So, what does a nation do? It builds up an overwhelming military might, then creates an enemy. The enemy it creates must have virtually no military might or a military might that is so weak it could be easily and quickly over ran (knife behind the back, then to the throat). But you don't want to wipe these folks out, either. You want them alive because their lives serve your nations purpose. They attack your nation with its minor might because you, as a nation, have destroyed their economies and keep them oppressed on their own lands. Then, you move in with your overwhelming military might. But wait! You also have control over their energy supply. You cut it off, make them weaker, because in a fair fight, it just wouldn't work as well in your direction. Thus, a minor analysis of the current Israel/Gaza conflict. Israel uses tanks, Gaza uses stones. Never in a fair fight.

The U.S. did the same to Iraq. No military might faced by an overwhelming military might. Never in a fair fight. This type of shit has happened throughout history, like Ronnie Reagan hitting soft targets in Nicaragua and Honduras in the '80's; hospitals and schools specifically. Good ole American moral high ground, like; "Kill them all, little and big...nits make lice." Never in a fair fight.

I read in David Stannard's, "American Holocaust," that when the Aztecs went to war, they liked a level playing field. Your folks didn't have as many weapons, they'd give you some to even it out. Not as many soldiers on the field? They'd take away some of theirs. They loved a fair fight, or so it seems. Loved a balanced playing field. Didn't practice that American moral high ground of "Kill them all, little and big..." or "soft targets."

Tell me folks, don't you think it would be honest...and well...MORAL, to fight on a level playing field? Say, 100,000 Americans armed with...bats...against 100,000 well fed and healthy Iraqi's armed with...bats. Then they go at each other for a while, and after it is all over, head to the nearest Iraqi bar, compare wounds, laugh and joke about the good fight, cry over fallen and wounded comrades, then maybe decide to turn it into a sport where not so much killing happened.

Oh, I'm sorry, this is civilization, and civilization never fights fair. Fair and balanced my ass! Never in a fair fight!