the letter with no address

 Lead, copper, brass, bronze, steel, and aluminum, things that end up making a bullet!  This is of course not for a inspirational lesson on unity and its strength, like copper alone or steel alone might not be as fatal and convenient as a bullet, thus…”stronger by union”.

 NO. (It would serve as an example but of a very poor taste)!

                                      If however, one were to give an example of such a fruitful unity, one can refer to battles in which these bullets are used and ultimately sides with greater head count wins (not the ones with greater number of bullets, but with greater number of hands to use them!). Wars neither are fought to prove such a point, nor are they won by such simple principles. My teacher once said one must look into who is benefiting from what war. If there is no such benefit, the war is like ‘a letter with no address’ or ‘dead letters’,  These nonmailable letter is returned to the sender. These wars lack rational purpose, into which men cannot be either persuaded to volunteer neither forced. Moreover, it is one of the important principle on which wars are won. But these are insignificant, for such ideas of war don’t survive the rigorous amalgamation of consent. Then what goes on the name of just war and holy war? Compelled to war or right to war? Who participate in these wars? Are benefits of war not always too handsome to flaunt, so they need a little word-play and philosophy?  What are the modern day benefits of war?

                                 Is it Power?  for subjugation of the truths that command the present reality. The truth of our modern(and old) times, which include Warfare, so  war just for the sake of war,  just out of respect for manifest reality. Or is it less philosophical and more practical, capital. Economic wars just strolling outside its natural arena, giving oneself a more of military means for its ends! Or is it both? I think one suggests the other, so it is indeed about power and the things it buys!                       

                                    But why hide such a desire for conquest under the pretense of word-play and philosophy; it is of course not a vulgar idea of fore-play before action!  Why, because tyrannies in our age don’t hold a mortal semblance, but that of nations and organizations and the democratic process require consent of more than one individual. This naturally calls for some pious objective for terrorism to persuade not so enlightened part of voters and on which certain puppet organizations could agree too! Or to simply withdraw from dirty-work themselves, and hire holy warriors for a just war!

                                       Men participate in these wars, in some parts voluntarily, in other forcefully. History holds some bitter connotations with this forceful participation so now it goes under various labels now like, self-defense, discipline of the great military life incorporated in civilian life( the distinction ends during war and so it should in peace). But men are not armed with mere wrong facts, rotten ideology, severe brainwashing, determination to win and articulate speeches, but with automatic guns and tanks (although it is hard to find how they acquire all of the above things, people care mostly about guns and tanks, while themselves holding two of those guns in their study room drawers) , so the form wars takes is a little more colorful than what it was century ago, and now it has an indisputable ally which makes the horror reach every household, the media.  

                                         It has become, thus, common practice to make threats in front of the whole world, it has been done so many times that it more or less has lost its credibility and people fear more, the diplomatic and soft-spoken persons over a T.V.  But T.V and internet have done more good than bad. As with every other thing, it has not always been used for good. So now we can see internet based terror groups, words like physiological warfare, whose mere existence depends on it. To think that without the internet, they will die is partially correct, but then without guns and tanks and nations, everything will. Internet is as indispensable to our existence as air. Try living without that!

                                          But war has always been an inevitable part of our existence. Nations were not carved out around earth through peaceful conferences. Geographical boundaries were not drawn with crayons but blood. So why sweat over the inevitable? Why because, it has never been a threat to the annihilation of the blue planet. Its reach has never been this wide and the decimation (much larger in scale than Romans) which it’ll entail is unimaginable. It is advisable not to fill one’s void with such imagination for to paint such a picture, the canvas could not simply be placed in one direction.

                                           Now that every other nations allege each other of the famous ‘snake in the backyard’ proverb, it is insignificant to know that what comprises a bullet, it is enough to understand that it does not have a will of its own, those who kill and die, they do it for nations, it is a relief for them to know these bullets don’t actually hold their individual address but it cannot be denied that they don’t hold any address at all.