Political Jargon Written Well in the Book "The Warrior State."

While shifting through the political details that did not interest me, I was able to easily skim read the parts that sparked my interest and got a delectable read; three stars for "The Warrior State; Pakistan in the Contemporary World released in December.

Honestly, I maybe read about ten percent of this book, but details of the 1000 year war between Pakistan and India do not interest me. What ignited my passion was a quote from Charles Tilly;

"War made the state and the state made war," Tilly said.

This statement is true for all the leading nations of the world, the U.S., China, Russia, and many other nations. As we all know from our reading, there are currently more than 50 wars going on in the world. War is a huge money maker for the select few who run the world. "The Warrior State" does not focus on the issue of war.

"The Warrior State" details such things as how Pakistan is a hotbed of religious, ethnic and sectarian conflict. According to Wikipedia, sectarian is bigotry, discrimination because of religion, class or political beliefs to name a few. Intriguing how Pakistan ranks a 133 out of a 148 countries in global competitiveness, yet is number five in its possession of nuclear weaponry.

Politics and religion go hand in hand in Pakistan, and "The Warrior State" emphasis how political leaders in Pakistan use the young who blindly buy into the Muslim faith and are willing to die for their cause.

The youth who adhere to political lies die in Pakistan like everywhere else in the world, such as the U.S., whose leaders send other people's children to war so they can enhance their insane greed for more power and money.

This book was not written to expose political corruption in the world, but I interpreted that way with many of the things the novel embellished upon. The books author, T.V. Paul is a professor at McGill University in Montreal with 15 published books.