“And the peloton has entered Paris, riding along the Seine. They can see the Eiffel Tower now and what a glorious sight that is; Lance Armstrong in his 13th and final appearance on Le Champs Elysees; seven Tour victories, a feat that may never again be matched…
“Oh, wait…this just in…
“A crap-load of secret documents has just been released on the Internet which suggests war sucks generally and the war in Afghanistan sucks even more than we already know…
“…and Alberto Contador will take his third Le Tour de France victory in four years.”
Really? The war in Afghanistan is going badly? War is insane and a shame on humanity? No kidding?
The revelations released Sunday on Wikileaks and covered ad naseum by the New York Times, the Guardian of London & Der Spiegel tell us much we already knew: the Taliban is a strong force in Afghanistan; the Pakistani spy corps, the ISI, may actually be helping the Taliban; the U.S. is using more drone missiles that we let on…and…
…oh yea…who’s idea was it, anyway, to start a war in a country history shows has always repelled invaders?
Well, it was our idea – the American people’s idea. Oh sure, we were goaded into by a gung-ho president and congress – and, especially, the some of the world’s greatest news organizations.
You’ll recall a butch of thugs based in Afghanistan launched an amazing and horrible attack on the U.S. back in 2001 using hijack commercial airliners to crash into New York and Washington. It was hell, the worst attack ever on the United States.
Thugs pulled this off; a relatively small band of thugs. The U.S. had to respond in kind. Don’t stop to try to understand what led to this attack. Don’t try to figure out why the band of thugs hated us so much. No time for that. By golly, we’d been hit and we had to hit back.
You know, “whoever slaps you on the right check, turn around and slap the crap out of ‘em.”
Rather than pursuing a smart police action, rounding up the criminals in Afghanistan, we decided to launch a full scale war. Then we decided that wasn’t enough. We had to launch another full scale war on another country that didn’t have anything at all to do with the attacks in 2001.
Makes perfect sense.
We did such a good job in Vietnam we just had to try it again. The Soviet Union had such great success in Afghanistan in the 1980s, we just had to do ‘em one better and show ‘em how you really crush an enemy.
The Wikileaks, NY Times. Guardian & Der Spiegel examination of the secret documents on Afghanistan tell us the war is really bad. Thanks for letting us know.
Violence begets violence. Maybe that’s where we really excel!
Memo to God of Abraham:
CC: Buddha
Maybe you outa give up on trying to make us learn the ways of peace. We ain’t listenin’.
