Tuesday, March 18, 2008

IRAQ AND AMERICA'S RIGHT NOT LEARNING A THING AFTER SO MUCH HORROR

POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

So much anger and irrational comment from the Right Wing here.

I'm sure the tone of things couldn't have been much worse against the reasonable voices in Germany as the troops invaded innocent Poland, starting a war that would eventually consume 50 million souls.

By the way, those German troops, with Hitler’s swastika over their breast pockets, wore belt buckles with a slogan which translates: “God with Us.”

What is amazing is the absolute inability of such people to learn anything new.

Five years in Iraq has taught them nothing. This despite the fact that one of America's most gifted former generals labeled the invasion as the greatest strategic blunder in modern history.

Do you not understand that even if the terror has slowed down now with more troops that that is almost the least of the problems ahead? Do you really believe mad McCain’s words about a hundred years if necessary? Don’t you understand that Iraq is doomed now to fall apart with God only knows what consequences? Although, very clearly, one of them will be the Southern part falling under Iran’s influence and the Northern part strengthening the guerilla warfare of Kurds in Turkey?

It is disappointing, but it comes as no surprise. All that horror and murder and destruction in Vietnam - all for no point whatsoever - taught these people nothing. They weep at the Wall with 55,000 names on it and never give a thought to the 3,000,000 dead, countless crippled, and the environmental horror they left for others.

Some people are just born bullies, just like some are natural born killers.