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This whole 'create an "other"' argument of yours makes no sense at all. You can't just choose at which stage of the investigation of cause and effect that suits your argument to close your eyes and stick your fingers in your ears.
All you're demonstrating is that you don't want to confront the very different strings of events, and the actors in those events, and the differing motives of the individual actors, that really begin and prosecute each separate war. Saying 'us' cause wars is like insisting that the sun lets us see in the daylight.
Carlton: what about the electro-chemical mechanisms of the human eye, the evolutionary forces that drove human genetics to express the cells that conferred those mechanisms, the fabric of space-time that permits the propagation of the electro-magnetic energy, the cyclical nuclear fusion that generates the light rays, the quantum energy that variously induces the existence of all of the above?
Hawker: Bah, that's all just conspiracy theory. The sun enables sight, the end.
If that analogy makes sense to anyone else, by all means let them reply to it.
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/viable-device-discovered-at-armagh-house-1.1641332These guys are at war with their Protestant neighbours and the British security services. They won't stop until the British surrendur and the Protestants leave Ireland. If you went to Armagh 100 years ago, similiar guys were making similiar devices. If gene therapy works and you live 100 years more and go to Armagh in 2114, you will find similiar guys making bombs of some kind.
I believe this is perfectly normal human behaviour. Our history is a history of conflict and wars and there will never be a peaceful human society. As it happens, its very unlikely there will ever be a human society without banks either.
You seem to believe that all wars are bankers' wars. Do you believe that somewhere out there a banker is co-ordinating the IRA campaign to drive the Protestants out of Ireland and defeat the British Army?
In the interests of fairness, I can provide a Loyalist alternative. The UVF is still actively fighting Catholics and will carry on doing so until Doomsday. Literally until Doomsday as they believe the Pope will have a role in the apocalypse. IF you believe that there is a banker out there running that campaign as well, do let us know.