War is ... like ... so stoopid

War is stupid. That is, it is a bad way to solve human problems. It also makes you stupid, the closer you are to it, physically, emotionally. When you are near to a war you start saying things to yourself like "War is stupid" which is, itself, a stupid thing to think. Of course war is stupid! you say in response to yourself as you walk down the street muttering, shlepping seven bags of groceries from the SuperDealSolde as you carry on all sides of a stupid, inchoate argument about stupid, stupid war, in your head. Ariela says that she gets to the point of saying "Rrrrr" a lot these days.
The impossibility of writing something not-stupid about War (when written with a capital letter please imagine the word pronounced in all its stupid significance) has prevented me from writing at all since the outbreak of The War. I have felt too stupid to say anything useful about this War, what The War means, or War-In-General and of course it seems vulgar to write about other things when there is a War going on, so I have put all my effort into writing fiction. War is the context we give to the times when we go ahead and do what we know we shouldn't do -- try to kill other people. "Please don't kill me," you say, "I just bought all these groceries at Supersoldedeal. And besides it is wrong to kill somebody, everyone knows that." "Oh, but it's war..." "Oh, well okay then. Maybe you'll rape and pillage as well?" "Well, it is War, maybe I cheat on my taxes too, hee hee."
There are so many examples of how War en-stupid-itates people. Here is one example that got me. I read in an email that the tenor of the Anti-War rally in Montreal was really anti-semitic. I was curious so I went on Youtube to see video clips. I didn't see anything particularly anti-semitic but I did hear some pretty explicit anti-intelligence, to wit people chanting, "No Justice, No Peace." That floored me. I wondered who exactly these people thought they were representing, or supporting, or whatever. No Justice, No Peace?! Is that supposed to be a pro-Gaza chant?! Do these people want more war for Gaza?! More one ton bombs?! That'll teach those Zionist running dogs a thing or two about justice. Do these demonstrators want more cluster bombs and artillery shells dropped on the Gazans they are purportedly supporting?! Maybe they want more mortars and katushas shot at Israel? I don't think so, but even if they hate Israel and Israelis enough to want that, they can't like what it brings. At the very least they ought to come and launch the mortars themselves so the brave freedom-fighters of Gaza can have a smoke break between shelling Israeli civilian targets. "No Justice, No Peace" could be the marketing catch-phrase for War itself. Of course, you can't really blame the yahoos who were chanting this; It's War and War is when people's brains stop working. When stupidity reins.
"Open the gates of cluelessness, and unleash the dogs of dumb." That's Shakespeare, Stupid, in case you didn't know!