I am not an expert on war. There is always one going on somewhere on earth, it sucks for everyone, and you can't win. No way anyone wins anything. That's pretty much all it boils down to, no winners, nothing to win.
" We gotta get em' before they get us. That's the "One Percent Doctrine" The Dick Cheney Rule. If they are not white and with us, if they worship anyone but Jesu' they have to go, too risky. Steal their children and train them as servants.
A lot of really miserable shit is happening to a lot of people who do not want to fight, they just want to go to work or take a hot shower, make some pancakes....but there is mortar fire outside, missiles coming for buildings, and pets, literally utterly innocent kids get blown to shit,
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It is the good ol' "Fog Of War"
I understand the principle, if you take a man's money, you do what he says. They really really want to win, military guys all do, where they differ is in their views on tactics and strategy. Mostly, they don't use real statistics to determine anything, they make shit be what they say, the grateful embedded chow hall latrine buddies newspaper guys say, at the big event, the Television Press Conference "yeah, good, send it to TIME, inc."
Next day's headlines?
"Good War, We Win"
Shit, I do remember our hot shit General Curtis Lemay, this dude ran the Trinity program for the US Government, he built the bombs and signed the orders and then shook hands with the airmen who flew them to Japan....blast the rice planting bastards all to hell. All of them. That time, it was ok to use it. Saved lives except for the other ones.
I think he's gone now, General Curtis LeMay, a true military man, the kind of guy that won as well as started the second world war, a guy that truly learned how to believe in all kinds of shit he hadn't before. The guy was horribly intelligent and devoted to us, America. It is said, I think I believe it with caveats, dropping those bombs on the Japanese ended the conflict in the Pacific theatre of the Second World War, in our favor, The Allies.
I can only imagine what he thought of Werner Von Braun. Father of American Rocketry and Nazi Buzz Bombs that killed thousands and thousands of people asleep in London one night after another, his rocket designs, all of the V series weaponry the Nazis made, he was in charge of it all. The rockets were built by Nazi-held slaves and concentration camp denizens moved to Peenemunde just for him. We don't like to talk about the 'deals' we made there, taking Werner to New Mexico was a coup, no shit, and LeMay cared not one whit about his "politics'.
General LeMay, a soldier, took his orders and fulfilled them. He wanted to do it again I hear, during our police action with Korea, he thought we should try one on Mao. Eisenhower probably said no, thank you.
He, LeMay, scared Kennedy, he worried Eisenhower terribly, he's probably the reason it has to take about thirty people one after the other to agree before we could use a nuke now.
Can Putin sustain the move he's made? Everyone is pissed off at him, the Russian people are going to really catch hell with most of the rest of the world. Probably. Do the teabag neocons foaming around hope he succeeds?Do they want to use Putin's plans for Eastern Europe on us, wait, maybe it isn't those ones, it's them over there, could be them anyway, or maybe these squirrels in my yard are wearing wires and listening at the windows, oh no, I'll have to start shooting. Wait, wait, no need for violence, I can get them to come over to my side for peanuts. Hehehehe.........
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LeMay reminded me of my father. I will tell you here, you would not have any fun in a fight with my father. He is, literally, the only guy I ever ran from.
.......good news break......................
>>> Jonathon Pye, NY Times UK correspondent. He has some fucking great commentary on the NYT web paper I get from my wife. I confess I like it, The Times..But I read the Guardian at the same time on a different screen, then I go over to Mr. Greenwald for seasoning. I'm going to be alright.<<<
So, continuing on, we have to economize, cut back on the ammo bills but still, we got to let the boys be boys.
I learned this, our real military solution, I got it from a pre-school teacher.
Anyone could tell how well this would work.
All The Big Men?.
Put them in charge of ant farms so they can command something, they will feel fulfilled watching the ants march and dig while they pretend the ants love them, can't wait to fight and die for them, and will just keep digging, no matter what.
Let them rant, just don't take them so seriously, give them space to be who or what they are, but have them play marbles for trophies instead of giving them anything dangerous. Maybe make one marble every day blow up, no one knows which one or when, but they get wounded in the ass and get the Heart.
Let them go visit the wounded ants back in the states
They will be good ants. Hero ants. Ants of liberation. National contests to name the divisions, the Churchill Ants, The Abrams Ant Wall. See, whatever they want the ants to do, they can push them around all they need to, the ants will like it.
When they have to go get their merit badges from federal prison, I think you can have an ant farm in your cell at Lompoc.
Escapes though, on the inside, could cause a lot of trouble. They might have to get ant guards to work for them. Like the concentration camps had inmate rats, the ants probably will have that as well.
You're going to have ant riots if you aren't careful, who needs that?
It's going to be a thing, the new world with happy dudes in the office chairs by Gucci
There you go.
There we go.
I can't find out what the fuck is really going on with any feeling of certainty at all, I see the internal workings of state security organs everywhere, the unseen hand jerking everyone off, the mighty Wurlitzer of Bullshit, spinning 4 Leslies
I am interested in knowing how to discern the full truth, so I look for it.
It takes a little work, time too.
the effort to find the reality, just
at least. observations of life on Earth
that job if we live while we do it..
not just functionaries.
if there is pure truth,
I guess I need it.
Clinging. Suffering. There it is.
I need something better.
You know what? When you are, since I am, American, we have had it really really good. Safety by sea, but the water keeps getting shallower, people are trying to walk here now. If I was them, I 'd be coming right along too, from say, Libya, Yemen, Ukraine, Russia, Guatemala, Brazil, Mexico, The Middle East including Israel.
I would probably just be passing through though, I would be young again, I would be knowing what I know now then and, I would immediately start building a compound in the middle of the Alaskan Wilderness and never come back.
Marry a bear or an Eskimo, if they'd have me.
Sometimes, like right in the middle of this, I get a blast of just how full of shit I actually am.
HA!
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