So, where to begin? Nuclear reactors releasing radiation and the body count continues to rise in Japan? Or the uprisings in the middle east that continue?
Lets start with Japan. What a nightmare, I watched those videos the day it happened and heard the early estimates of body counts and I said, well that would be a blessing because it looks like everything in sight is being destroyed. The body count continues to rise, around 9k last I heard and there seems to be 15k or so missing.
I see the pictures of the destruction and a single person with devastation all around and I wonder..okay, which direction do you start walking? I mean its miles and miles of demolished houses and cars upside down and boats miles inland. How do you get your bearings and which direction do you take off in? Just a chaotic nightmare.
And the radiation..well, I'm sure no one is being honest about that, them or us.
Now for more chaos which I don't really understand, Libya.
I don't understand it for a bunch of reasons but let me just start with a few. Bharain is very similar and they are repressing their folks in a very similar manner to include using help from the Saudis. Now, why do we look the other way while that goes on? The answers are obvious in my opinion and easily researchable.
And reports are that in Yemen pro governement forces recently whacked 52 civilians with a machine gun, but we are not bombing Yemen.
Now back to Libya. So, the population rises up and demands change. During this time period many of the Army defect ( rumored to be about 6,000) and some of the Airforce runs away with planes to Malta. So, it almost seems like Ghadafi is outgunned and certain to fall.
Well, he decides he is not going down with out a fight and starts kicking ass and taking names.
So here is where I get confused, its a Muslim country and they are kicking the shit out of each other, why did we decided to get involved again? Can't really be humanitarian because I see the same thing going on in other countries were the leaders are supressing uprisings. Tiananemen square, the Chinese ran over people with Tanks and we did not create a no fly zone over China?
By taking out his air defense, is that not an act of war against a soveriegn nation? What exactly is the end game for us? What if on land he starts handing the rebels their ass, what then? I don't know it just does not make any sense to me. I say let them kill themselves. If "Freedom and Democracy" reign supreme, then it will work itself out. I believe that the rebels are weak otherwise they would not need our help. My guess is we will somehow get involved in propping up a new government and suddenly we will be "nation building" again.
What we will be faced with, is just like these other places, sometimes the outcome is not what you were expecting and the new leader is perhaps worse than the previous. I personally feel that the resources spent on this new front could be better spent in Afghanastan where I would like to see our boys finish their missions ( whatever that may be) and get their asses home.
Good Read - The Plot to Destroy the US Military
In my blog over the years, I've posted some of these same thoughts. Perhaps not in exactly the same way and surely not writtine this well, but this article does tie many things together that have been discussed here and with many friends over many beers. I'm personally over 10 years removed from the day to day life of the military and I've had no gun in the current fight. So, I can't say if the descriptions here are accurate with regards to the reality of overseas, but many of the things I see in the news seem to jive with much of what is written here.
"In two generations we have gone from General Patton telling his troops to grease their tanks with the enemy’s guts to an extensive purge of Navy command officers over a series of raunchy video skits. Slowly but surely we are turning the greatest armed forces into the world, into the most politically correct disarmed forces the world has ever seen.
The USS Enterprise crackdown, like the firing of General McChrystal and the push to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”, completely ignore military realities for political objectives. A political military is also a useless military. Stalin’s purges of the Russian Army’s commanders left the Soviet Union completely unprepared for the Nazi attack. And the US military is being shaped along the same lines into a political military overseen by men whose chief credential is that they share the same politics as the politicians whom they serve."
And later in the article..
"But war is selfish, not altruistic. It is a selfish decision to take the life of another, rather than our own or that of our loved ones or our fellow men. Its nobility comes from that very selfishness, a selfishness rooted in kinship and friendship, rather than the abstract ideals which so often come down to nothing. If we are to fight, then we must be selfish. If we are to win, then we must be realistic. Politics has no place on the battlefield. The only thing worth fighting for is ourselves. Our land, our homes, our survival. It is one thing to fight side by side in alliance with friends, but fighting wars to reform enemies is the worst sort of foolishness. We can try to transform our enemies, but then they will transform us also as well. By trying to win over Islam to our way of life, we have given it great influence over us."
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Jurena...out
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