In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
Kicking and Screaming
The difference between this and Vietnam is profound. Vietnam was political. We thought we were fighting international communism, but it was a civil war, and ten million deaths later, who gives a fuck? We were a fly on a thousand-year-old pile of shit. Originally it was about the Japanese, but after 1945 Ho Chi Minh came to us and we shook our heads no, because at that point it was all about China. So we got sucked into a gap left by the French. I defy anyone to tell me what we died for in Indochina between 1962 and 1975.
Here we are in Iraq. This isn't a political war, it's religious. History is replete with religious wars. They go on for centuries. This is a war without end. The only way to "win" a religious war is to annihilate the other side, utterly and completely. That means killing every single one of them. You can take all the political slogans and shove them. We are in it now. Spain voted No, which in my mind is pussified, but Europe has a clear idea of day-to-day reality. I've been saying for more than a year that we're no different from Israel, that we are Israel, that for all intents and purposes, all Americans and all our allies are Jews. That means we are all targets. How to fight?
Bush has led us straight into quicksand. He forcefully shoved us into a sinking pit. His guys are totally OK with this, they're all making money, while G.I. Joes are losing limbs and life. That's fine too, let's not even bother with the coffins. The Europeans are all too familiar with this quicksand, and they say no. So we react.
When all is said and done, and all the people who are alive now are killed and dead forever, what was accomplished, for what reason?
- Michael 9:15 PM - [PermaLink] -
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