Let us never forget just what's at stake in the war in Afghanistan: nothing less than the success of the war in Afghanistan. This war may be a mistake, a blood-soaked blunder, an unholy charnel house mindlessly consuming the bodies and souls of untold thousands, an open sore on the pockmarked face of history and an abomination before the sight of God and men, but it is first and foremost a war, and wars must be won. If the United States doesn't win this war, then will it not lose it? And if the United States loses this war, then won't the United States have lost it? And if the United States has lost this war, will that not then make the United States a kind of thing that loses wars? And then where would we be?It goes on from there. Read it all. Funny, but mainly in the "keep laughing to ease the pain of all the mindless, senseless, stupid waste of human life" sense.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
And here I was, naively thinking that there was no point to this whole thing and people are dying for no good reason...
Why we fight, according to Fafblog:
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Thanks for the post, J Neo. I hope this gets into the zeitgeist.
Idiotic. The message was to keep fighting just to win, as though "winning" magically makes it worth it? At what cost? War is expensive, in many ways, and a country should never stop assessing how the war is faring, so that it can make the best possible decision. Closing one's eyes to the reality of what's happening for the sake of a glimmer of political victory is bull-headed, simple and immoral. Things change. America, rich and proud, is flawed and loses wars, especially ones that do not have its people behind it. I do not support the continued war efforts. Who does? People are not fighting to protect American freedoms: people are fighting because they are told to. It is a waste.
It's frustrating. Things were so bad in the Bush years that "politics as usual" seemed like paradise in comparison. Well, it does, but it still stinks to high heaven. Still the unquestioning acceptance of war as the solution to our problems, only with a glossy veneer of "this time we'll do it competently." Cold comfort. I knew we weren't likely to get President Kucinich, but we can do better than this. Obama's got the best intentions (and probably knows he'll be killed if he doesn't play along), but in the end he's just as blinded by the military-industrial complex as any other ambitious politician.
Still looks good next to the loons in the other party, but this is not good enough.
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