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Abdullah Azzam (Bin Laden's mentor)  was called the “Lenin of international jihad." He produced a philosophy of history crystallized in the words below:

Azzam did not produce a naive doctrine of "winning" or "losing" as the purpose of political violence. 

He understood the "bad math" of history (Strenski): loss = gain. Political violence revolves around death and destruction for its own sake. 

Imagine the endless, endlessly bizarre histories of the First World War that claim that--by asking young men to run into machine-gun fire and artillery shells for four years--Germany, France and Great Britain were trying to "win" the war.

This is the meaning of my post in claiming that mass-murder is the "bedrock of history." Winning or losing battles is besides the point.

Apart from deaths in warfare, Stalin and Mao killed--in cold blood--tens-of-millions of their own people. They understood, as Azzam did, that history "does not write its edifice except with skulls." Historical "glory" builds its edifice upon a "foundation of cripples and corpses." Empires cannot be established "without blood, sacrifices and invalids;" without "pure innocent souls."

Historians can write forever about the "causes" of specific political conflicts, wars, battles, cases of genocide, etc. The photos above, however, summarize what occurred: History writes itself in blood. 

This is the "glory" of the human race: to produce death. The "reasons" vary. However, it's clear if an event is to be "written up in the history books," a large number of human beings must die. 

We remember those leaders who produce the greatest number of deaths.

Rememberance is beyond victory or defeat; beyond good and evil. The objective is to be written up in the history books.