Friday, October 13, 2006
a question to the answer
The logic you hear a lot of these days is that we'll look like 'losers' if we leave Iraq (I almost typed VietNam). Then terrorists will "run around the world saying 'we've defeated the Americans, it's the greatest victory over the West since the beginning of time', and it becomes a recruiting propaganda piece of advocacy for jihadists," so said Australian Prime Minister John Howard, basically echoing the president's own rhetoric.
But in my estimation, this is what they're saying now:
"Arent those Americans stupid!?!?? Allowing us to dictate their having to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on a war that they not only can never win but which will eventually bankrupt them just as we did with the Russians - Ha! What fools!"
Hardly the impression one would have of "winners"
And this concept of joining the Jihad to cripple America is the very propaganda they're using to effectively call their fellow Jihadists to arms.
Mr Howard continued with "Certainly the post-invasion phase, the post-military operation phase, has gone on longer and has not gone as well as one might have hoped. We will go when we believe we have finished our job. Now I don't know when that will be, I really don't."
When will "the job will be done"? When the US has been crippled from financing a burgeoning fiasco? By failing to finance our own infrastructure in the US? By taxing our children's children to pay for this? By not creating an alternate fuel policy so crucial in weaning us from oil and keeping us from having to be involved in the mid east? By not providing the services required to develop the critical educational issues facing our citizenry? All for a war that cant be "won"?
But in my estimation, this is what they're saying now:
"Arent those Americans stupid!?!?? Allowing us to dictate their having to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on a war that they not only can never win but which will eventually bankrupt them just as we did with the Russians - Ha! What fools!"
Hardly the impression one would have of "winners"
And this concept of joining the Jihad to cripple America is the very propaganda they're using to effectively call their fellow Jihadists to arms.
Mr Howard continued with "Certainly the post-invasion phase, the post-military operation phase, has gone on longer and has not gone as well as one might have hoped. We will go when we believe we have finished our job. Now I don't know when that will be, I really don't."
When will "the job will be done"? When the US has been crippled from financing a burgeoning fiasco? By failing to finance our own infrastructure in the US? By taxing our children's children to pay for this? By not creating an alternate fuel policy so crucial in weaning us from oil and keeping us from having to be involved in the mid east? By not providing the services required to develop the critical educational issues facing our citizenry? All for a war that cant be "won"?
Friday, October 06, 2006
KICK 'EM WHILE THEYRE DOWN
Man, life's weird. Ya see a guy who's payin his bills, the mortgage and taxes, and always ontime, faithful, loves the kids, even if, and when they arent his; tryin to make the most with the burgeoning business he's got, and all that still falls way too short for some people.
No, a few clouds on the horizon doesnt mean the teeth of the gale's upon you, doesnt mean the ship's about to sink, doesnt mean it's "each man for himself", and it definitely doesnt mean you give up the ship for the rowboat. No, that's when it's all hands on deck - when the winning team rallies - when you find out who your friends are, not "were", and it definitely aint when you a kick a man - not when there's still a breath of a breeze in the sails. Maybe not the strongest, most uplifting breeze, but enough to know you still aint dead in the water.
And if it aint sinkin, dont tell me it is. 'Cause to me mate, that's mutiny.
