The government of the United States will falter in Bosnia and will not know why. Brimming with feelings of humanitarianism, arming itself with an imprecise rhetoric and calling for measures instead of solutions, the government will enter Bosnia like the brash cow it is, milking the same flames, which will singe its belly.

The U.S. government, for all its lawyers, are clueless in the face of war. I would like to call war the most irrational state of the human condition. War is unreasonable because at its root is the fact that someone wants something that is not theirs and they are not willing to earn it for themselves. I cannot call war the most irrational state of the human condition because I would be making the unrealistic assumption that the initial conditions on which a society is founded and those which generate a state of war are never the same.

War is the most reasonable way to work out all that is evil in our society. We are a society which embraces Christianity, a myth of faith, uncritical thinking and a system of morality which is only strengthened in the face of societal corruption. We are a society which mistakingly equates good intentions with efficient solutions and in the face of Bosnia, our Christianity is strengthened. Alongside the United Nations, full of its good intentions, we press onward just hoping that someone will tell us that we are doing the right thing; in making ourselves more evil, we are compromising our self-confidence.

Impatiently watching the television from our sitting rooms, we weep at the slaughter of children and and market goers. We inappropriately name this unfortunate group innocent victims. We speak of war crimes with fervor at our coffee shops and cafs but for all of our pathetic weeping, we are in more terror of our own impotence at facing the topic.

Bosnia is at war and the mission of war is to kill people. War is absolutely manifested by all that is evil in a society; all so-called innocent victims wrote their own death warrants during every moment of unreasonable behavior they fostered before the war. War is not caused by soldiers and the government. War is caused by citizens and none of them deserve the prefix innocent.

We may weep as an entire society slaughters itself and its children and unfortunately this sympathy will manifest measured solutions by the U.S. government. As our bomber jets leave their runways, remember that we are citizens of the United States precisely for the reason that we do not wish to slaughter ourselves.