That's okay, some of the lads on patrol probably didn't either.
The War is over in Iraq. A site called Zombietime has declared it so. The fact that the troops are not coming home and being feted through the streets appears irrelevant to your man. That the army continues to need soldiers such that they are now taking Cat IVs also means nothing to the fellow. He cites stats that say the level of violence is way down.
Which means the troops will be coming home soon. Er, no. We are coming up with an agreement to prop up the Iraqi regime with our army for another three years.
So who am I to rain on the ChickenHawks* parade that they're not actually having. Well, I have a different conception of victory as I set out in America's greatest 20th century victory
Now, granted we might not all agree on what constitutes a win. In order to set the tone, let us define terms.
The Agamemnon School of Victory: This consists of completely destroying your enemy, grabbing a lot of plunder and a great looking slave babe. After that, you go home to be murdered by your wife and her toy boy. It is only the last part that I think needs work.
The American Century School: After victory or tie, hunker down, rebuild the place, never leave.
The Neutralist School: After the war, you can leave and forget about the place you left.
The ChickenHawk victory bloggers see it as a American Century victory where we leave troops, waste money and make sure oil profits flow.
The poor sap fighting the war who the war bloggers pretend to love but would never join may see it differently as well.
On a some of blogs I saw tip jars. The nerve! Hey lads, sign up and get the paltry bonus on offer to others not so fortunate.
If it were victory, we could leave.
*They may not all be ChickenHawks but a lot had little about me sketches telling how brilliant they are. Oddly, little about their service.
Why The Neutralist? The term Isolationist implies a narrow Fortress America outlook and is used as an epithet. The term Neutralist does not indicate someone hiding out from the world. No one calls the Swiss isolationists. The Wilsonian world view is old, tired and wrong. Our interventions have been less and less successful and now the failure can no longer be covered up.
Friday, November 28, 2008
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
plus ça change is like deja vu all over again (sorry Yogi)
So we have Clinton retread Holder at Justice.
La Pasionara herself at State.
Rahm Emmanuel, Chicago neocon hack as Chief of Staff.
Now, Obama and the Dem leadership have made peace with Department of Fatherland Security Committee Chairman Lieberman. Notice they did not take away the chairmanship of the committee where he can be as neoconnish as he likes.
So now exposed for the world to see is the meaning of change, Obama style. It is not in the sense of the management of a losing ball team firing the coach and obtaining different players. No, it is change in the sense of the purchase of new and more stylish uniforms for the same sad team.
Yes we can get ready for the Bush-Obama Administration.
La Pasionara herself at State.
Rahm Emmanuel, Chicago neocon hack as Chief of Staff.
Now, Obama and the Dem leadership have made peace with Department of Fatherland Security Committee Chairman Lieberman. Notice they did not take away the chairmanship of the committee where he can be as neoconnish as he likes.
So now exposed for the world to see is the meaning of change, Obama style. It is not in the sense of the management of a losing ball team firing the coach and obtaining different players. No, it is change in the sense of the purchase of new and more stylish uniforms for the same sad team.
Yes we can get ready for the Bush-Obama Administration.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Lest We Forget
Today we celebrate the veterans of our country. The origin of this holiday was the armistice that ended the World War I.
I defy anyone to justify our entry into that war as anything but a horrible error. I have had this discussion many times and in the end, either my opponents would give way (rare) or resort to invective.
Then again, it is the same with the so called war on terror.
Our national motto should be:
Plus ça change, whatever.
I defy anyone to justify our entry into that war as anything but a horrible error. I have had this discussion many times and in the end, either my opponents would give way (rare) or resort to invective.
Then again, it is the same with the so called war on terror.
Our national motto should be:
Plus ça change, whatever.
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