[Posted July 10, 2007]

Demons at War

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

Breitbart.com July 9, 2007 - ANDREW TAYLOR

Report: Wars Costing $12 Billion a Month

WASHINGTON (AP) - The boost in troop levels in Iraq has increased the cost of war there and in Afghanistan to $12 billion a month, and the total for Iraq alone is nearing a half-trillion dollars, congressional analysts say.

All told, Congress has appropriated $610 billion in war-related money since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror assaults, roughly the same as the war in Vietnam. Iraq alone has cost $450 billion.

The figures come from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, which provides research and analysis to lawmakers.

For the 2007 budget year, CRS says, the $166 billion appropriated to the Pentagon represents a 40 percent increase over 2006. go to story

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Ultimately a Loss

War is Natural Hansadutta das

When one sacrifices for a material cause, he's just a loser. Look at all those Germans who sacrificed. And the Americans who sacrificed. What did they gain? Or when they went to Vietnam, what did they gain? Now they're giving loans to Vietnam. And RussiaÉ. This material see-saw is all on the mental plane. Who is my friend today will be my enemy tomorrow, and who is my enemy today will be my friend tomorrow. There is no continuity. There is no permanence. It will come and go. more

Headed for the finish line

excerpt from conversation, Mayapur, February 14,1977

PRABHUPADA: That communist is giving stress to the shudra [worker] class, and the capitalist are giving to the belly [vaishya or merchant/landowner] class. And what about the head? What about the arms? [referring here to the brahmana and kshatriya classes] And therefore topsy-turvied. Everything is disorder. There are two classes of men now-capitalist and communist. The communist is giving stress, "No. Simply the legs shall be taken care." What is called? Proly?

HARI-SAURI: Proletariat.

PRABHUPADA: What is that proletariat?

SATSVARUPA: The laborers.

PRABHUPADA: That's all. These rascals are giving stress on the legs. And the capitalists, they are giving stress on production. And where is the kshatriya and brahmana?

HARI-SAURI: Well, they're all giving stress to accumulation of weapons. They're all giving stress to...

PRABHUPADA: That is not kshatriya's business. That is... That is... No, that is described. Krishna said... He arranged the battlefield, because the kshatriyas... they became very powerful by individual military strength as it is now...

HARI-SAURI: Accumulation.

PRABHUPADA: Yes. So Krishna arranged: "All right, you come together and finish yourselves." So this arrangement will be done that all atomic bomb will come in warfield-one, next, third war, finished. All these, all these demons will be finished. That is not kshatriya. This is demonic. Kshatriya's business is to see that the four orders of life are maintained properly, not increasing military strength only, overburdened. Everyone is spending 75% of the revenue for military. Huh? Paritranaya sadhunam vinashaya cha dushkritam [Bhagavad-gita 4.8]. So they are demons. Why so much money should be spent for military? They are not kshatriyas. They are not kshatriyas. They are demons. So demons... As soon as there will be number of demons increased, there will be war and finish all.

Sri Guru and Gauranga

Kshatriya's business is to see that the four orders of life are maintained properly, not increasing military strength only, overburdened.

Demons at War

Report: Wars Costing $12 Billion a Month

Headed for the finish line