Creepy Clown at Republican Rallies
OK. No travel words this time. Current events, some history, and what it means to me.
First off this clown is a serial assaulter, by his own admission. And, like most abusers, refuses to admit it's his fault or his actions and denies, denies, denies. What's amazing is the number of supposedly civilized people that lap up his lies and are wilfully ignoring his character. How do we account for this except that they feel that these are acceptable shortcomings? How about all those good "christians"? How do they account for their support. Time for Jesus to cleanse the temple again?
His media supporters are unbelievable. How can his apologist, Rush Limbaugh, complain that liberals accept two or more people of consent engaging in personal relationships that he finds abhorrent, stating that "anything's OK as long as you have consent". Well, maybe he's never had consent, or feels that it's not necessary. Consent is the key. Without it you have assault and rape. Perhaps his brain is severely addled by his lengthy known history of opioid abuse. He must still be using. Otherwise how can you explain this complete lack of logic. Unless, of course, he does not care about logic, and neither do the people that listen and accept his blathering. This is how date rape happens, consent is not required according to Rush.
What does this say for our society. Well, we see it, on TV in prime time nearly every day. A sad comment on the state of our country. If this is what they want to take america back to, I'm sure glad I have my 2nd Amendment right. And, NRA, I don't need a semi-automatic assault weapon to defend it. If I ever do find the need for one I will obtain one. I know a special operations trainer who fully agrees with me on that point. I have the training and skills, thanks to the US Army during the Vietnam War, and means to do so if it becomes necessary.
Since I've mentioned the topic of war, let's take a look at the last few we've engaged in.
Afghanistan may have been a worthy endeavor as a means to attack Al Qaeda by removing the Taliban from power. Of course that would not have been necessary if the Russians hadn't been so stupid as to get involved there in the 80's. We were not smart either. No outside country has had any success in controlling that country's tribal society. And we were not in the position to bomb them back to the stone age, proposed by many, as in Vietnam. Overall, from a military point of view, we should have been far more cautious. Arm the opposition as we did and let them kick the Taliban out. There may have been a non-secular society as a result, but perhaps it would have been far more friendly to us than what resulted.
Now, Iraq is another story. I really get pissed when the Republicans claim that it's "Obama's war" or complain that Clinton voted for it. How do you ALL, forget who and how that damn mistake started? The Iraq war was a burning bag of dog shit that Bush the 2nd left on the White House steps for Obama.
Saddam was our boy in Baghdad. He was the "rock" against the Iranians that we supported during Reagan's terms of office. We put him in power and sold him those weapons of mass destruction so he could use them against the Iranian infantry mass attacks. Cheney and Rumsfeld were the bag men for these deals. There are lots of photos of these two with Saddam during this time as they went to Iraq to support and help him in that war. When these two characters were returned to even higher levels of power by George II they were the strongest voices about Saddam's ownership of chemical and biological weapons. They insisted that he had stockpiles at hand and was capable of using them against the US, and had the desire to do so after we destroyed his army in Kuwait. Why? He had used them against his own people in the Basra region in the south and against the Kurds in the north.so we know he was not restrained in their use. But why did they insist on his still having them? As far as I was concerned at that time they had no true evidence, and eventually that was proven.
I fully believe it's because of the quantity we had provided him with. Bush was a dupe. Cheney and Rumsfeld had delivered so much to Iraq that they fully felt that there was no way he could have used it all up. So they sold poor unenlightened George, the American public and Congress that Saddam was a real threat to the US when it was all about oil resources and Cheney's ties to Halliburton's logistics profits with the US military. I feel that it amounted to treason against our country. We sent our troops to fight and die. Spent a billion dollars a day in a war without a plan, in a part of the world driven by religious factions. No one in George II's admin, OR OUR MILITARY, had a plan for what to do after he was gone and had not prepared a legitimate civilian government for the aftermath, and Dick Cheney and his friends got a lot richer. Cheney should be in jail. The hell w/ Hillary's emails. Cheney's crimes were thousands of times worse.
Same stupid shit happened in Vietnam.
During Vietnam I was in college ROTC. I had the opportunity to read the works of our country's main adversaries, Mao, Che Guevara and Giap. Mao and Guevara's books were mainly political texts, instructions on how the people had the need to rise up. Now, Vo Nguyen Giap's book was an actual military strategy and tactics proposal. He saw how the US would respond to the North's desire to take over the South. He laid out a plan on how to respond and accurately predicted what we would do after that. And, what they would do as a result. He had a plan and Ho Chi Minh and Giap effectively implemented it with the result that the South's admin lost the people, and we the war. We failed to understand the deep-seated national desire in Vietnam and dismissed it when it was made apparent. The Pentagon Papers revealed how we had broken our word to Ho during World War II that his country would be freed at the end if he fought the Japanese. Well, we did not keep our word, and re-installed the French. We forced Ho to approach the Russians and communism. Where else was he to get arms to free his country? Our military leaders were all wrong. Haig, Westmorland and their subordinates were fighting the last war, not the current one.
I really see no evidence that our leaders have gotten past this myopic problem still. Otherwise how can the clown have "hundreds of military officers" advising him on a way to success with their favorite scorched earth proposals. Maybe its to dress our troops in militia uniforms for the invasion, like Putin did in the Crimea.
Oh yeah, he openly admires Putin and the way Russia has conducted local diplomacy lately. We already see how he would extend Putin's methods to treatment of political opponents and journalists. We've seen how he encourages his followers to engage and attack those who disagree with him. The handwriting is on the wall and they celebrate it. Sad days for the US.
Ciao for now.