In the lead up to the Iraq War I had dinner with my dad. Among other things you can always count on my dad for consistent, steady, every-man sensibility with frequent flashes of brilliance that out-pace his education or experience. He just gets it.
Knowing this, I asked him what he thought about the prospect of getting into a war. He paused and thought for a moment. He then said "If these guys think that this guy has these weapons then we have no choice." I agreed. To a point. I responded, "But Dad, I don't think these guys have even thought about how we are going to get out. This will be another Vietnam." No lie. That is what I said. They should have called me. Maybe I should have called them.
You see we never had a plan for how to get out. "You break it you own it" was apparently too esoteric for President Asshat. There was no plan to get out. No plan to aid the troops when they got home. Hell there was no plan to aid them while they were there, you know, the troops "we had, not the troops we needed."
Those troops, this nation, the Iraqi people could have used an OUNCE of the outrage spilled over Benghazi. Why is it that our outrage is always misdirected? You want to see a Congressional hearing convene in record time? Have some flash a nipple at the Super Bowl. Have a bunch of overpaid athletes juice up. Orchestrate a fake war that kills and maims hundreds of thousand of people and the silence will be deafening.
Just when we started to step beyond the shame and atrocities of the Vietnam War - we jumped right back into a quagmire. On the surface it just looks like self-flagellation but it is really all about the money. The only economic power the wealthy in this country possess lies in their ability to wage never ending war.
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