Thursday 14 June 2007

Zeal Does Not Rest

I experienced an internal jump of glee when I first caught sight of HMS Ark Royal in Greenwich harbour this morning. It was a feeling that I'd not had since I was a young boy, a very definite excitement about the awesome power of killing machines.

It took quite a few years and experience of global conflict for me to resign myself to the fact that war was possibly the most terrible element of human life and that these colossal machines were no more than instruments of that terror.

But still there's something about it, something about the technology, planning and zeal of war that, very deep down, provokes an excitable urge to fight fight fight.

I wonder if this urge is what ultimately causes war, or whether war causes this urge?

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