"There is a Great Beast loose in the world of men.
It awoke in dark times, to fight a terrible enemy. It stormed through Europe, across the far Pacific, and crushed the evil that it found there underfoot.
But when it was victorious, when the crooked cross and the rising sun were done with, the Great Beast’s keepers found that it would not go back to sleep.
The Beast has many heads, and on its heads are written names: Lockheed. Bell. Monsanto. Dow. Grumman. Colt. And many more.
And they are very, very hungry.
So the Great Beast must be fed: and every generation, our country goes to war to do just that. A war for war’s sake, usually. And one that could have been avoided. But there must be blood in extraordinary quantities, and whether it is foreign or American is of no consequence at all."
- Garth Ennis, Punisher: Born, Issue #4- The Last Day
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Look, we all know what its like when you have a new, shiny toy and no place to play with it. And we spent most of the 80's building up nastier and nastier toys to play with Ivan, but Ivan folded like a lawn chair and we were left with blue balls.
ReplyDeleteFrankly, I find these little brushfire wars a little unsatisfying.