Amy, I am sure that you are a good person, having read a variety of your comments. I am sure that Rand is too, having met him more than once. You also are relatively free of the stupid-banal @#$%^ BS slogans! that provide the noise all around, in that famous ratio, signal/noise.
So as one bit-of-a-snip to another, as regards:
It's too bad you don't hear about the good things that are being done in Iraq. And I am totally against us being there, but we are in it and we have to finish what we started, so might as well buckle up and ride it out.
1) Good Things..
When decent people are being sent, even illegally as here: via massive premeditated lies and a barrage of propaganda learned at the knee of Paul Joseph G\ufffdbbels - most of these Will try to make the best of a situation they cannot even resign from, without being killed-virtually/socially, if not actually. They Will pass out the chocko bars. They Will help a kid, etc. Nobody. Here. Imagines. GIs. as Repo-Animals. Clear?
There is no surprise here.
2)
but we are in it and we have to finish what we started, so might as well buckle up and ride it out.That's precisely where Our Top-Berserker's confusion about the difference between Stoic Determination and just plain fucking adolescent-Stubborness -as base character flaw- Hits The [and My] Fan. Y'know?
Ride WHAT out? Do you mean - erase-all-memory of that Other day-by-day slaughter, wherin were offed 58,xxx Muricans AND anywhere from 1.5 to 4 million slopes?
('cause that's what our GIs Called Those People).
Today our xenophobes call the newest of our ones-to-be-freed: ragheads. See a pattern here? Ever thus. (It ain't just Texans who like to coin colorful derogatory phrases, either.) Why I recall mick, kike, nigger, spic and a few dozen others.. from them White Christian folk around me, as a tyke and On---> Today.
Recall.. 'suckin the snot outta a dead ___'s nose' ??
We should continue to commit seppuku and mayhem -
Because This Cabal Says"We Shall Stay There for 12 YEARS If We Must" cha cha cha.. ???
(paraphrase of Rummy's most recent offhand retort, which I heard in livid hi-fi audio)
Sorry Amy.. Nope. Not again. And... SO SOON after last atrocity.
It is So Very Far from being this simple, even in a culture which adores the simplistic (and I have noticed already that you Aren't a one who spouts, knowingly, the usual Orwellian slogans - nor do I see any signs at all, of religio-adoration) of this self-proclaimed
Junior-Jesus -- he who intentionally precipitated this Land War in Asia\ufffd,
with pious-malice aforethought.
I shall not, Cannot join you in Any variety of, "let's shoulder the burden and win, get this over; declare Victory-again and then congratulate ourselves for, once again Spreading Freedom," cha.cha.cha.
Nope, I remember Joe McCarthy live on B/W Tee Vee gettin his head handed to him on a crusty platter, by Welch. This repeat-time around for the Idiot Sons of Joe - -
I Want Blood - Neoconman blood, the blood of Chickenhawks: to trivially-match that already spilled, that already budgeted-for next AND
all-that-coming blood: assuredly to be spilled by the newly created baby-terrorists, orphans of Just Such as precipitated this thread! who shall be
Returning. Our. Favors.
No Sale on the 'finishing what we started' road,
Ashton