WAR? What WAR?
Blog Post Summary - This has nothing to do with Promoting Your Books. This is the occasional soap box rant that I shall take advantage of through my exposure to the vast swarms of readers I have out there. Then I will write today’s blog on RTIR. If you dont like ranting (via a very astute historical juxtaposition), dont read any further.
Does anyone recall what is going on in The War? Or more accurately, The Wars, since there are two of them happening right now that involve the US of A. Could be they are sharpening their smart bombs for Iran too but it does not count as a third war just yet.
It’s The Economy Stupid has taken over everyone’s consciousness and the coverage of what is going on in Iraq and Afghanistan has taken a deep left field bleacher seat in terms of news coverage. This is part of the danger … an ongoing cost that goes on indefinitely while we electronically print money, piling up debt that will be passed on to future generations. This is not what got me ticked off enough to write this.
Does this sound familiar:
“We have adopted a plan which we have worked out in cooperation with the government of (the country we are occupying) for the complete withdrawal of all US ground combat forces. As the forces of (the country we are occupying) become stronger, the rate of American withdrawal can become greater. I have not and do not intend to announce a timetable to our program.”
Just pop the word “Iraq” in there for (the country we are occupying) and you have Curious George W Bush’s oft repeated milque-toasty platitude about troop withdrawals for most of 2007.
But guess what? This is not a quote from Dubya. Nope my friends, this is nobody other than our dearly departed and disgraced Chief Executive Richard M. Nixon speaking about Vietnam on November 3, 1969.
Anyone that totally dismisses the similarities between Vietnam and Iraq is doing too much meth.
And why are we in Iraq? Just about anyone with a brain at this point figures it has something to do with oil, which is of course, one of the big issues with the economy. So if we are concerning ourselves with the economy we are KINDA thinking about the war.
Or something like that.
These are scary times my friends.