Sigh...

Once upon a time some scientists and researchers created technology that would lead to the ability to make a drone. Probably there was a spark of an idea there that "This could do some amazing and wonderful things!" and really not much thought given to the idea that their creation would be used to annihilate people from a distance as easily as stomping on ants and with the added bonus of no risk of losing any of your own people in the process.

As George Patton might have told them, once you remove the risk of losing your own people when you want to attack and kill people you have removed any deterrent to going ahead to do that...basically those people you want to kill just become bugs or blips on the screen...war becomes a video game. You can kill, baby, kill all day long and not even work up a sweat.

There is a simple principal at work here, if you believe in something, a cause, a war, a threat enough that you think you must kill for it...you must be willing to feed your children into that machine...that meat grinder...and watch their blood, bone and gristle spray out the other end pooling and piling up at your feet.

If you can do that, if you can stuff your own child into that machine using your own two fists, listening to their screams and pleading for mercy and their barely audible question of "Why?" and you are allowed to shed a tear or two while you do it...that's fine and expected really...well, if you can do that then it must be some kind of cause...I mean it really must be something you completely believe in and you are ALL IN...then kill away!

Kill with everything you've got...kill until there is nothing left standing and you are waist deep in the viscera and the only sound is the ringing in your ears and you are not even aware you are still screaming.

There will be little left of you when you are done. No real sense of what you have won or probably any real ability to take in and assess the results...and if you don't shove the barrel of your gun in your mouth or slice your own guts open when you realize there is nothing left to kill... take comfort in knowing you did what you believed in...if you can remember what that was...and there is no more threat and there is no more burden and now you can sleep knowing your gods have been appeased.