Historians suggest that the war was prolonged in order to be able to set up a demonstration of the bomb's gruesome effect on populations.  If the war had ended when Japan's surrender had first been offered, the opportunity would never have existed again to sacrifice the lives of a city for a demonstration exercise that was required to be so horrific that it would scare the world into seeking refuge under the umbrella of a world-organization, which became the U.N..

The Cold War that followed might never have occurred without the catastrophe that had been imposed upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that had deeply wounded the hearts of humanity.  By its 'success,' the Empire quickly managed once again to set major nations of the world at each other's throat for their mutual destruction.  Fortunately, this plan failed.

That the plan would not succeed without further eroding the moral strength of society became vary plain during the Cuban Missile Crisis which presented a perfect opportunity to ignite the world for the mutual destruction of Russia and the USA.  Except, in those days, sanity still prevailed.  The Empire understood this, and acted accordingly.  Consequently, new type of war became unleashed by the "Heart of Darkness" from this point forward, that would 'correct' the situation.

The Vietnam conflict was a ready made stage for this new war.  It was probably the first military conflict in history that was designed not designed to be won.  The thrust, here, was not to defeat communism as was publicly stated, but to defeat the moral conscience of America.  The U.S. population was the real target.  It was set up for destruction from within.  It became the real victim as it witnessed the savagery of this war on television.

The numbing effect of this horrid campaign was further overlaid by a series of other psychological shocks.  While the great fear of the Cuban Missile Crisis still lingered in the mind, and the unbelievable assassination of the country's President, J. F. Kennedy, his brother remained vividly clear, the slaughter in Asia was grinding on, and then, as if the shocks would never stop, came the assassination of country's top spiritual leader, and human rights leaders.  The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, and Malcolm X, served no real purpose in themselves, but were powerful elements in the overall scheme by which the very meaning of rational civilization had been put into doubt.  This process, naturally, opened the door to irrationalism and mysticism.

Out of this unfolding background the next onslaught emerged, in the form of the rock, drugs, and sex counterculture.  Also emerged its equivalent economic ideology which was centered around the post-industrial society dogma.  Thus, civilization was being destroyed from without and within.

Initially, the counterculture movement opposed scientific and technological progress, while during its second phase, it focused its opposition onto the physical infrastructures by which a society lives.  Two more phenomena were added later.  One of these is the pseudoscientific environmentalism, which grew out of the second phenomenon, by which deep cuts are now being imposed against the support systems for human living.  The price on human life, of this single phenomenon, all by itself, amounts to more than 100 million unnecessary deaths per year.  The second phenomenon that was also added later, was the global imposition of the British Empire's feudal monetarism.  It became the world-financial system that has wrecked virtually all of the world's economies.  This system is now in the final stages of collapsing, leading to a system wide disintegration that will simultaneously disintegrate also the nations that it, then, no longer serves, causing anarchy, violence, starvation, deprivation, and diseases.  But, of course, what else would one expect to come forth from the "Heart of Darkness."

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