Literally on the credit card. I got a f'ing check from the government during that blighted, neo-con- birthed war with a go-spend encouragement. I immediately emailed the constantly begging for $ D party that until that war ended they wouldn't get another cent from me. ( The Iraq War is a particularly sore point with me. ) Have you seen t…
Literally on the credit card. I got a f'ing check from the government during that blighted, neo-con- birthed war with a go-spend encouragement. I immediately emailed the constantly begging for $ D party that until that war ended they wouldn't get another cent from me. ( The Iraq War is a particularly sore point with me. ) Have you seen the movie Shock and Awe? I recently watched it on A Prime. A slight clunker as a movie, but told the real story. The movie implied that the search for Bin Laden in Afghanistan was put on the back burner so the Iraq War might be seen as somehow getting Bin Laden. Viet Nam was a very, very bad mistake. But it might have, could have, had the upside of providing a lesson learned. Nope. There is a class of arrogant, denialist, humility-less (usually) men who will not learn lessons that are contrary to their hardwired mindset. They don't pay the price, but SO MANY others do.
And BTW Travis, are you now a happily married man enjoying your family and looking forward to all that your family's future holds? I hope so.
GWB diverted resources and attention from the war that we HAD to win, the one in Afghanistan, to wage a war of choice in Iraq, and he lied to get us into it. I'll never forgive him for that. And I don't think that we've finished paying the full cost yet for his blunder putting Afghanistan on the back burner; the Afghans certainly haven't.
I am a happily-engaged man with a step-daughter, so I'm getting there. I'm a worrier by nature, so looking forward to the future is a heavy lift for me, even with the blessings of loved ones and a good job that can support them. I fear for this country and its future. I fear for what the country has already become. We're a nation of individuals in economic and cultural competition with each other, which isn't exactly what I'd call a "country" exactly in the real sense of the thing. I fear for the world my step-daughter will inherit after I'm long gone. I don't think our national values are ever getting back to where they used to be. I think we'll just keep worshipping and supporting the rich at the expense of normal folks.
Literally on the credit card. I got a f'ing check from the government during that blighted, neo-con- birthed war with a go-spend encouragement. I immediately emailed the constantly begging for $ D party that until that war ended they wouldn't get another cent from me. ( The Iraq War is a particularly sore point with me. ) Have you seen the movie Shock and Awe? I recently watched it on A Prime. A slight clunker as a movie, but told the real story. The movie implied that the search for Bin Laden in Afghanistan was put on the back burner so the Iraq War might be seen as somehow getting Bin Laden. Viet Nam was a very, very bad mistake. But it might have, could have, had the upside of providing a lesson learned. Nope. There is a class of arrogant, denialist, humility-less (usually) men who will not learn lessons that are contrary to their hardwired mindset. They don't pay the price, but SO MANY others do.
And BTW Travis, are you now a happily married man enjoying your family and looking forward to all that your family's future holds? I hope so.
GWB diverted resources and attention from the war that we HAD to win, the one in Afghanistan, to wage a war of choice in Iraq, and he lied to get us into it. I'll never forgive him for that. And I don't think that we've finished paying the full cost yet for his blunder putting Afghanistan on the back burner; the Afghans certainly haven't.
I am a happily-engaged man with a step-daughter, so I'm getting there. I'm a worrier by nature, so looking forward to the future is a heavy lift for me, even with the blessings of loved ones and a good job that can support them. I fear for this country and its future. I fear for what the country has already become. We're a nation of individuals in economic and cultural competition with each other, which isn't exactly what I'd call a "country" exactly in the real sense of the thing. I fear for the world my step-daughter will inherit after I'm long gone. I don't think our national values are ever getting back to where they used to be. I think we'll just keep worshipping and supporting the rich at the expense of normal folks.
Amen!