WHICH SIDE ARE WE ON THESE DAYS? FANTASY OR REALITY?
By Schuyler ThorpeAuthor and Political Activist
It doesn’t cease to amaze me. You would think that this endless war without a plan or exit strategy would curtail the government and military’s rosy and optimistic views on how this conflict is going–but it hasn’t.
Curiously, it seems to have magnified the symptoms drastically: Though we have daily bombings in Baghdad, with civilians and US soldiers dying pretty much every day, both the military and the government running this dog and pony show still believes that they are making “progress”!
So I guess in this instance, we are in fantasy mode–not reality.
Despite all the carnage going on, both apparatuses are operating under a make-believe mentality that things are progressing regardless of the enormous loss of life done to both occupier and its liberated populace.
Which of course, is making the mission in Iraq less definable and more complex. If the recent surge of troops (scheduled to be increased to 28,000) was supposed to have worked by now, it has failed.
If the recent surge of troops was supposed to have stemmed the bombings and contain the violence, it has failed.
That is reality. But to Bush and the military, that’s “progress.”
To my mind, this is the worst application of military and federal intelligence in any war brought forth by the US since its inception over 200 years ago.
It is no wonder the chaos still goes on unimpeded! We are simply allowing this to happen because we got a bunch of amateurs in both sects of command operating under the mentality of a retard!
This goes beyond anything which the civilized world would be able to understand. And quite frankly, this conflict is creating more instability by the day, than it could possibly do in the exact opposite.
And despite Bush’s claims to progress with Malaki’s government, there hasn’t been at all. Some half-hearted gestures from his side, but in reality, he’s allowed this to go on for far too long.
The Iraqi people are clamoring and demanding that he does something, but he can’t.
However, Bush will still call it “progress” no matter what. The Iraqi security forces are unable to halt the violence. Stop the insurgency, stop the Shiite militias.
And neither can ours.
So in effect, what we are dealing with here is something we all call reality.
But to the Bush administration and the US military, it’s called fantasy
“progress”.
Schuyler Thorpe is an author, a political activist, and a frequent letter writer to The Everett Herald of Snohomish County. He can be reached at: starchildalpha1@yahoo.com
Labels: Bush, chaos, fantasy, Iraq, Malaki, reality, troop surge
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