We should always ask, what is the point of any war activity? From the Napoleonic wars onward, people seemed to have become numb to the horrendous casualties inflicted not just by military encounters but also by epidemic disease, decimation of civilian populations, destruction of major civic and public facilities and wholesale characterization of the enemy as sub-human and worthy of extermination. Witness the burning of Atlanta, the trench warfare of WWI, the cruel carpet bombing of WWII, the nuclear age, rape and pillage against women and children. The actions of Lords and Generals, Kings,  Kaisers and Czars, Presidents, Prime Ministers and Parliaments to kill, kill, kill and cause such widespread wastage needs to be decried and renounced. This weekend's so-called Veteran's day remembrances too often fail to recognize and describe the absolute horror of war and instead glorify the viciousness and idiotic sacrifice of both men and women to the godless cruelty and insanity of their military and political leaders. Today Iraq and Afghanistan stand in mute witness to the folly of military conquest and occupation. The very people who we want to save are those who suffer the most. And the profiteers? They get away with murder.