Many of us were raised in religious or spiritual
traditions that professed that there could be a Just
War. While arguments still rage as to whether
the two World Wars were Just, with a clarity we had
never known before, now we knew that modern nuclear warfare
irreparably nullified the application of the principles
of a Just War.
Nuclear war
upped the ante, so to speak, in that if
global nuclear war breaks out,
there is no guarantee that the bombs dropped on the
enemy won't
eventually kill the warrior himself.
Nuclear fall-out. "Atomic friendly fire." In
an unsettling way, nuclear bombs actually
erased the distinction between victor
and victim—
there are only victims.
For awhile this bizarre
truth—that there are only victims in a nuclear
war—was realized by the major global powers and they entered
into a MAD pact (Mutually Assured Destruction).
All recognized that the only way to win a nuclear
war was not to start one!
But the sojourning alien observes a deeper,
more threatening and chilling transformation that occurred on
August 6, 1945. It
was the day
everyone on Earth was redefined as
an Intimate Enemy.
The Warrior's Quest was
fulfilled, completed, ended—because the distinction
between warrior and enemy disappeared. Every
person on the planet became not only enemy, but an Intimate Enemy.
Pause a moment and really ponder, meditate upon
that truth.
Continue—IE
