Same flag, second verse, could be better, can't be worse
In over three years blogging I never once deleted a post until yesterday’s “Wrong Side of the Morning” conflagration that was ignited by empathy with U. S. Marine anger and bitter disappointment about Fallujah being allowed to fall. For those who were there, Fallujah is “died in vain” every much as if Japs were allowed to retake Iwo Jima. The history that America is now developing for its Future Past is shameful, but we won’t read it and by the time present is history we will be beyond worry or care. It’ll be another generation’s history to learn from. Or take pride in, God forbid.
My memory is of an America in clear just war, which we did not start, which was based on vital national interest, where the objective was victory of reality in unconditional surrender. Not political σκύβαλον of an imbecile in a flight jacket waving a V while getting his picture taken standing on the flight deck of a warship. God help us.
If lives are sacrificed when objective is cloudy and doubtful, then war is shame and war criminals spawn, live, move and have their being. We can’t learn from our history in Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq; and in Afghanistan we can’t even learn from Russian history. 9/11 was on the order of Pearl Harbor: what would have been a credible response? Not a just response, a credible response. If war is worth American lives, run up the flag and salute the snake and unleash apocalyptic devastation such that no enemy dares Tread On for a thousand years.
Bit more temperate but not much, this post may stand. Or not.
Eating pizza with a fork is news? All those who are sick of bridgegate say aye.
In re: 9/11, and not incidentally -- a just response would have been to step back and start trying to figure out why these people hate us so, and take action accordingly. But such is politically, socially and especially morally beyond us. Instead we respond with power in which tens, or even hundreds, of thousands of innocent human beings are killed; and the hatred intensifies astronomically, irrevocably.
In re: 9/11, and not incidentally -- a just response would have been to step back and start trying to figure out why these people hate us so, and take action accordingly. But such is politically, socially and especially morally beyond us. Instead we respond with power in which tens, or even hundreds, of thousands of innocent human beings are killed; and the hatred intensifies astronomically, irrevocably.
TW