A World At War

[HARDCORE]

?I DECLARE THIS WAR TO BE AT AN END? is beginning to sound as hollow as an old maid?s chamber pot. ?I guess that saying that something is so, don?t necessarily make it so, and playing the part of those proverbial three monkeys (See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Say No Evil) is beginning to fool no one but it?s authors!??

While many a military commander is screaming for ?More Boots On The Ground (troops)?, Sir Donald of Rumsfeld is still busy polishing his Teflon armor and insisting that the 180,000 American Troops that we have in Iraq are more than enough to get the job done!? (Maybe)

Add to this the fact that in Afghanistan too, the situation is anything but settled down, and it is sure to bring about an uneasy feeling to all, save for a few armchair commandos flying their armor-plated desks, many, many thousands of miles away from the scene of action!

Granted, out troops, their field commanders, and their equipment are the best in the world, but the ?Hail Mary? approach to policy and tactics being demonstrated by a few politicos, many miles removed from the scene of action, is damned dangerous indeed (opinion)!!

?And what of the rest of the world? - is it sitting passively by (The Old U.N. approach) while ?Rome on the Euphrates? continues to burn - not according to the morning news it ain?t!!

It hasn?t been a heartbeat since the WTC and Baghdad U.N. Building Bombings etc, and the virus of hate is again showing itself worldwide in places like Russia and India too! Blowing the hell out of civilian targets has become pandemic worldwide, and the rest of the news flowing like excrement out of the media isn?t much better either!

Arafat, the ?Proverbial Middle Eastern Pain In The Ass? is in a power struggle with Abbas, Hamas is pissed off because Israel is retaliating against acts of terror, and even in U.S. prisons, the hammer of vengeance is nailing the formerly untouchable! ?It was just reported that a Catholic Priest, imprisoned as a sex abuser was knocked off by fellow inmates who look very dimly upon traitors and child molesters!!?

I can not help but marvel over those who continue to tout mankind as being leaps and bounds beyond the cave mentality!? But again, and as I said in the beginning of this piece, ?Wishing It So, Don?t Necessarily Make It So?, now does it!?? Talk is cheap after all, and it takes money to buy beer, or in DC?s case - Champagne and Caviar!!

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