Politicos
Hmmm… Met a sight today coming home from work that is kinda out of the ordinary for a small NC city. I saw a local police car with lights flashing followed by a couple of tan SUVs and then a NC State trooper also flashing merrily along. Only as the parade was speeding on in the other direction out of sight I noticed the flags on the front fenders of one of the SUVs. Must have been a high ranking politician or diplomat, huh?
Got me to thinking. Why do we afford these bozos such privileges? They’re the ones who pass laws, measures, start wars and other unsavory things to make our life more miserable, often against the wishes of the majority of the intelligent public. Let them deal with traffic, pay their own insurance and taxes, and send their kids to other countries to fight wars for people who could care less. Bet there would be some changes then!
Guess I’m getting more jaded in my old (50) age. (g) I sweated out the end of the VietNam “conflict” praying it would end before my number was called. I still had to register at 18 but the fighting was over. My parents were (are) proper “God fearin” folk and taught me from a young age that conflict solved nothing. Turn th other cheek etc. So guess what I did at 20 with a child on the way and no promising work prospects? Yep, signed up with “Uncle Sam Aint Released Me Yet”. I spent the 80′s in the service of my country and happily “drank the koolaid”. I believed in it all. Patriot all the way! Huuurrrahh! There are things I did for my country I’m not proud of and some that are so terrible I have entire months of my service my mind refuses to remember. I hope I never do.
And now here I am wondering why we are in a foreign country AGAIN fighting another un-winnable war. As long as we have “journalists” and “reporters” in amongst the action we will lose. Kick out the civilians and let the soldiers do what we were trained to do and we’ll be home in time for the Superbowl!
I know it’s not PC, but guess what? War is ugly, and civilians who get in the way sometimes die. Friendly fire happens. Till you’ve been there and experienced the confusing thrill/horror of the terror/adrenalin rush you don’t get to judge. Yes, some soldiers will snap and do unspeakable things. Train them right and a great soldier will be hovering right on the edge of insanity ready to do anything to “get er done”. There’s good reason many of our generation returned with problems adjusting.
Better stop now, before I REALLY get off on a roll…
Until Later
AaThom