Osama Bin Laden is dead. Woopie!
We are not conspiracy theorists, by any means, but that doesn’t mean we don’t understand the way the world turns. The U.S. has been at war for 10 years, seeking some unknown enemy. Did we retaliate by carpet bombing and/or spraying various countries with nuclear weapons after 9/11? No, we didn’t. We sent in millions of ground troops to fight a war we can’t win, killing thousands of blue-collar patriotic Americans. It’s very difficult to fight an enemy that doesn’t wear uniforms – we proved that to the British 200 years ago.
So how do we root out the infestation? We can’t. Regardless if one postulates that we brought this war on ourselves, we still have to address the fact that we are fighting an unknown enemy. Several of us flew on an American flight to Thailand recently, and there were 2 captains in the armed services on that flight. One was a captain in the National Guard. Yep, the National Guard, sworn to protect our homeland, was off to get stationed with a way point in Thailand. Don’t ask us why the “National Guard” is being deployed, unless you want to know that sentiment for foreign wars evidently doesn’t run so deeply in the red, white, and blue, or that we’re mismanaging our defenses.
He called the war “useless.” He said, “You know, we go in there, but every one of those guys has a brother, or a cousin, or a step-son, and when we get intel on a base, and then we go in there the next day, they’re all gone. They tell each other we’re coming and to just go hide in the caves for a couple weeks. When we attack they’re gone, and then we leave and they come back. We can’t tell them apart and we can’t actually hold anything because of that.”
We can’t tell them apart and we can’t actually hold anything. Well, that says it all, and it certainly isn’t some racial derogatory statement, it’s fact. No one is wearing a uniform, and unless they are firing weapons at you, you can’t tell they are the enemy.
Now this post isn’t a rant against the fine men and women who serve in our military. Fighting for some things is honorable. Whether or not any particular war is honorable is hard to say. We can imagine that fighting in Vietnam sounded honorable, until the fighters came home, were spit on, lost their legs, whatever, and 20 years later, we’re trading with the Vietnamese and eating their food all over the U.S. Same thing happened with the Japanese, the Russians, and the Germans. As far as we’re concerned, war might be perpetual, but it’s not for the freedom we claim it is. The days of war being lucrative or fighting for the homeland are over. The days of war being honorable are over. We’re not even sure what the hell we’re fighting for – Americans are now just “World Police,” and that is not a complimentary moniker. It is akin to be being the busybodies of the world.
The only thing we can think of is that it’s a great distraction from the fact that we don’t have health care or sincere leaders. That we ban smoking but we allow the constant influx of artery-clogging blubber in the form of McDonald’s and KFC. That we pump high fructose corn syrup into nearly every food, including bread, then sell Lipitor to lower cholesterol and Jenny Craig to lose weight. That we have billboards plaguing our every street.
Shit, we sound like flaming liberals. But we’re not. In fact, we believe Democrat/Republican…Liberal/Conservative to be a false dichotomy. There is no such thing. There is only a person and his choices, and those choices do not fall squarely in the black or white.
So get back to the original quote. Osama Bin Laden is dead. How bloody convenient. Do we remember that Old Bush trained them to fight against the Soviets when we believed them to be a threat? Do we remember, as Americans, that we keep killing then installing dictators in various countries to attempt to “stabilize” various nations? Remember Noriega? CIA punk until he disobeyed. When those assets become expendable, they get assassinated, disappear, discredited, etc. It’s blatantly obvious you can’t trust the government’s motives, and lunatics have been raving about this for decades, so this post is nothing new. We wouldn’t be surprised if this post ended up in NSA headquarters. Probably glanced over and judged as no threat (as it’s not, please don’t send us to the nameless prisons), but even we internally shudder a trifle thinking about it. Scary that we’d even be concerned.
But give us some credit as Americans. We know damn well we’ve been expending billions of dollars, BILLIONS, for the last ten years, and we don’t even have health care for kids dying of cancer. As the minority elders that be realize that the public is getting restless, even feisty, about this ongoing war, they have to chuck us some empty, gnawable carcass for us to feast upon.
And that carcass is Bin Laden. Ooh! We finally killed him! There was some purpose in this war! The end is near! We chopped off the head of the serpent!
Problem is, we didn’t need a ground war to do that. Hopefully Americans can see that. The U.S. government either had his remains preserved for the last ten years, ready to unveil it at the appropriate time, or it really is so incompetent that it let him walk after 9/11 and only now found him. Are we supposed to cheer? Are we supposed to further support this unwinnable war?
We’re all for supporting our country in times of distress or invasion. We’re all for fighting with and for honor. But fighting for the Machiavellian schemes of the government and then cheering about it, 10 years after thousands of our troops died in the sand for no good reason, with no clear enemy?
We don’t think so.
*”We” don’t all agree with this liberal rant. We know Americans have 150 IQs. Some of us are even happy our infinitely funded government found and killed Bin Laden, even if it took 10 years and more than 200 billion dollars of American taxpayer money.
