8 July 2014
So Iraq is in flames this summer of 2014. According to the the many news outlets, a "bunch" representing an off-shoot of Al Qaeda has taken over a third of Iraq. If you believe our government, America has sent 300 military personnel back to Iraq to shore up the floundering Iraqi government and to protect our billion dollar embassy there.
Did I say that right? Just 300 military personnel?
Iraq III goes out with a whimper? Probably not at least for the 300 American military souls assigned the task of fixing it.
I don't know if I am qualified to pass judgement, but Iraq is the size of California. So we send 300 people to sort it all out? A country of Iraq by the way, it took 250,000 military personnel in the first war in '90-'91, and 175,000 military personnel in the second war '30-'11, to only marginally control.
And what of the trillions of dollars we have spent there since 1990? That's right, 1990. Has everyone forgotten the "first, Gulf War?" I am thinking that several trillion dollars could have provided state-of-the-art health care for every American for 20 years.
While people here in banal Janesville, Wisconsin, struggle to makes ends meet, still in the throes of "The Great Recession," they can pop on the boob-tube and watch former American and Iraqi Army equipment and weapons captured by and being used by the bad guys, the ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria), to facilitate the deconstruction of current Iraq. While eating chips and dip in front of Satellite TV, the peeps can watch the carnage in Iraq and distract themselves from an America slipping into Second World Status (a poor police state country with nukes). They languish with daily budgets like paying for..., health care.
These aforementioned Janesvillians do their toils as their state of Wisconsin, under the tutelage of an arguably inept Governor, slumps into a Great Depression rubric, but with cell phones, Internet, and dish tv. The said Gov is convinced he is Presidential material. Looking back now, maybe he is.
And looking back then, always a perilous activity, what of the perps that facilitated the many wars in Iraq. Father George H.W. Bush, American President during the first Gulf War jumps out of air planes in his 90s. George W. Bush, the son, American President during the U.S.'s second war over there, paints pictures of world leaders while he is bunkered in his fancy house in Dallas, Texas. For six years Barak Obama, the organizer, and the American President who inherited, "Iraq," fretted about health care and finally declared, "If you ain't got it, we will penalize you." He pulls all Americans out of Iraq. The "pugnacious" and 1960s Military Draft-dodging Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense in the First Gulf War, and Vice President during the Iraq War levies criticisms of Obama, as said Dick enjoys his new heart. He's got some health care from somewhere.
And, the peeps? Did I mention the peeps? Working in an entrenched service economy America, and languishing with the simplest personal budgets.
New information added in the last paragraph (a basic composition class no-no) :
How convenient it has been to forget the American Vietnam War and all its hell done to our economy, our Veterans, our nation, and to the people of Vietnam. I remember the news on the aforementioned boob-tubes in 1975 showing the bad guys overwhelming the country we had just spent over 20 years dumping billions of dollars into..., and soon after the communists took the country, America slipped into the "Misery Recession" of the late '70s and early '80s. Many of the Cold War American military families had to go on Food Stamps.
The end of Iraq is eerily like the..., end of our Vietnam War..., trillions of $ down the dumper; thousands of Americans, Vietnamese, and Iraqis dead and wounded from both wars. Lives ruined for ever. We learned nothing as a nation.
We "learn" nothing as a nation.
Vietraq...., Iraqnam..., surely it's just my imagination run a muck...,
...,banal service economy Janesville, Wisconsin, finds no correlation.
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