Psychoblues
Senior Member
Americans insist on perfection. Failure is not an option. From basketball to the space shuttle, Americans demand uncompromised success. Cheating is not allowed in MY America and neither is failure of objectives.
As a child I was taught that nuclear war was pretty much inevitable. "Duck and cover" was the solution to it. As an adolescent I was taught that America so substantially won WWII that future WARS involving the US would not be forthcoming. As a young man I learned that even though undeclared wars were excluded from my teachings, those wars were just as deadly and at least as wrong as I was instructed. As I grew in age, experience and awareness I learned that WAR is politically and corporately driven. As a Christian, I hold that WAR is immoral. All this can at least be tacitly excused to the concept of PERFECT IGNORANCE.
As a child I was taught that my "work" would be recognised and respectively rewarded. As an adolescent I learned that the work of my father and mother were certainly not fully appreciated by the powers that controlled the purse strings. As a young man I learned that even though I did as expected and ordered, I would be left hanging on a limb to protect the brass that ordered it in the event of a failure. As I grew in age, experience and awareness I realized that some folk are just out for themselves and to hell with me or what my predicaments or thoughts might be.
I realized that the Democratic Party, although imperfect, best represents my best interests. I fought them, the Democrats, for years. I thought the Republicans represented a business-like attitude. I didn't dream, at that time, that their ambitions at that time were to further increase my contribution to this society while lessening their own was their objective. I never dreamed that their profits came first and foremost while subjecting ME (the Republican Newcomer) to advanced and over incumbering cost and contribution to THEIR objectives and to their own profit.
I fought 4 wars for my country. 5 if you still include my service in Korea. (By the way, service in Korea still qualifies for Veterans Of Foreign Wars membership). If ordered to Afghanistan, I would still go and do my best to fight like a mad dog to root out the Taliban (by the way, they are now very much back in power there) and Osama Bin Laden and his cohorts. GWB stretched himself a little thin with me on his orders for MY colleagues to attack Iraq.
I was in Iraq for my country in 1991. I saw things I cannot speak of. I realized then the insignificance of Saddam Hussein to most Iraqi's. I realize now that the coalition (mostly American) has killed far more Iraqi's than Saddam ever did. FREEDOM or we will kill YOU. DEMOCRACY or we will kill YOU. AMERICAN BUSINESS INTERESTS or we will kill YOU. Get it?
Iraq is not and has never been in recorded history a peaceful nation. The "magic" of democracy has even failed there. I don't believe GWB has any "magic" to counter any of that. Murder is murder whether committed by a tyrant or a president. Many of them exchange nomenclature often according to their actions.
But? We lala along expecting perfection from our troops and I know they will give as close to perfection as they can. We lala along expecting our President to make intelligent decisions knowing full well he has relied on self admitted complete faulty intelligence that has cost approximately 2500 American lives and about a trillion bucks so far. We lala along in our perfect ignorance somehow supposing truth to be abstract and unnecessary.
GWB doesn't want you to see the actual horrors of war. GWB doesn't want you to see how he has contributed to the Energy Industry, the Military Industrial Complex, the telecommunications and news entities to suit his own objectives. GWB doesn't want you to see how the slanderous remarks he makes daily about his detractors are in fact slanderous and how his detractors are in fact PATRIOTIC and genuinely compassionate Americans.
Cheating is not allowed in MY America. Unfortunately, ignorance is.
Perfect Ignorance. A Republican concept they pray will forever be relevant to the peoples they rule.
Psychoblues
As a child I was taught that nuclear war was pretty much inevitable. "Duck and cover" was the solution to it. As an adolescent I was taught that America so substantially won WWII that future WARS involving the US would not be forthcoming. As a young man I learned that even though undeclared wars were excluded from my teachings, those wars were just as deadly and at least as wrong as I was instructed. As I grew in age, experience and awareness I learned that WAR is politically and corporately driven. As a Christian, I hold that WAR is immoral. All this can at least be tacitly excused to the concept of PERFECT IGNORANCE.
As a child I was taught that my "work" would be recognised and respectively rewarded. As an adolescent I learned that the work of my father and mother were certainly not fully appreciated by the powers that controlled the purse strings. As a young man I learned that even though I did as expected and ordered, I would be left hanging on a limb to protect the brass that ordered it in the event of a failure. As I grew in age, experience and awareness I realized that some folk are just out for themselves and to hell with me or what my predicaments or thoughts might be.
I realized that the Democratic Party, although imperfect, best represents my best interests. I fought them, the Democrats, for years. I thought the Republicans represented a business-like attitude. I didn't dream, at that time, that their ambitions at that time were to further increase my contribution to this society while lessening their own was their objective. I never dreamed that their profits came first and foremost while subjecting ME (the Republican Newcomer) to advanced and over incumbering cost and contribution to THEIR objectives and to their own profit.
I fought 4 wars for my country. 5 if you still include my service in Korea. (By the way, service in Korea still qualifies for Veterans Of Foreign Wars membership). If ordered to Afghanistan, I would still go and do my best to fight like a mad dog to root out the Taliban (by the way, they are now very much back in power there) and Osama Bin Laden and his cohorts. GWB stretched himself a little thin with me on his orders for MY colleagues to attack Iraq.
I was in Iraq for my country in 1991. I saw things I cannot speak of. I realized then the insignificance of Saddam Hussein to most Iraqi's. I realize now that the coalition (mostly American) has killed far more Iraqi's than Saddam ever did. FREEDOM or we will kill YOU. DEMOCRACY or we will kill YOU. AMERICAN BUSINESS INTERESTS or we will kill YOU. Get it?
Iraq is not and has never been in recorded history a peaceful nation. The "magic" of democracy has even failed there. I don't believe GWB has any "magic" to counter any of that. Murder is murder whether committed by a tyrant or a president. Many of them exchange nomenclature often according to their actions.
But? We lala along expecting perfection from our troops and I know they will give as close to perfection as they can. We lala along expecting our President to make intelligent decisions knowing full well he has relied on self admitted complete faulty intelligence that has cost approximately 2500 American lives and about a trillion bucks so far. We lala along in our perfect ignorance somehow supposing truth to be abstract and unnecessary.
GWB doesn't want you to see the actual horrors of war. GWB doesn't want you to see how he has contributed to the Energy Industry, the Military Industrial Complex, the telecommunications and news entities to suit his own objectives. GWB doesn't want you to see how the slanderous remarks he makes daily about his detractors are in fact slanderous and how his detractors are in fact PATRIOTIC and genuinely compassionate Americans.
Cheating is not allowed in MY America. Unfortunately, ignorance is.
Perfect Ignorance. A Republican concept they pray will forever be relevant to the peoples they rule.
Psychoblues