Death and Destruction

I've had some thoughts rattling around in my brain for a while so I'm gonna try and write them down.

Israrel should not not let up until they have eradicated Hamas. Hamas is guilty of bad think, much like the Nazi's and the Nips in WW2. We didn't just punish them with retaliatory raids, we pummeled them into oblivion. Hamas needs the same treatment.

Iran probably deserves the same treatment, but there are a bunch of Muslim countries in Asia. Are we going to lay waste to all of them? We were able to rebuild the moderately sized countries of Germany and Japan but would we be able to rebuild all of central Asia?

I'm reading Cuba Libre by Elmore Leonard and he paints the Spaniards as a very vicious group. Massacres, summary executions, torture and starvation are the order of the day. But then I got to wondering how did they get this way? And I remember some old stories of white explorers encountering natives in the new world. At first they got along, but there was more than one incident where the natives came back and massacred the explorers who had let their guard down because the natives seemed to be peaceful people.

The natives were guilty of bad think and the Spanish pummeled them into near oblivion. Western Civilization has standards of behavior that uncivilized people don't. That's what makes them uncivilized and guilty of bad think.

Darwin's theory of evolution applies to civilizations as well. Those civilizations that can organize themselves to produce more and better weapons are going to crush those who can't.