Hi readers.
Do you have difficulties keeping track of all that crap going on in the pestholes of the world? I’m not talking about France here. I’m talking about places where we’ve either invaded them and given them their freedom [Actually I suppose France meets that description, along with everyone else involved in WWII except Russia] eh. Well, hell.
Let me start over. I don’t understand what the hell is going on in the Ukraine, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Russia, or even the Pacific Ocean downstream from Fukushima Northern Hemisphere Distributor of Deadly Radiation. I don’t understand why they keep beating the trumpet claiming Ebola’s going to kill us all. I don’t understand why people keep claiming they don’t understand that Israel’s gradually absorbing their neighboring country before the eyes of the world and killing off the residents there indiscriminately.
It’s consoling to me to figure the guy in the White House doesn’t understand any of that either.
Nothing new there. Back when Ronald Reagan was dealing with Iran during the Jimmy Carter presidency, telling them he’d trade them weaponry if they’d hold onto the hostages until after the election, Reagan didn’t understand it all, either. I doubt he ever understood he’d been whipsawed by a bunch of smartypantses, one in particular, wearing a Marine Lt. Colonel insignia and a pretty face. I think Iran/Contra took him by surprise.
Yeah, Colonel John Wayne North helped weave that web. Along with a number of familiar faces later on during the Bush Senior presidency, engineering Desert Storm. Maybe Bush Senior understood it all.
But nobody has since then, among the distant observers, nor among the people who think they’re making it all happen.
Be consoled, readers. Nobody even remembers the assassination of President Diem, the Gulf of Tonkin and how that blew up into the biggest US military debacle in US history. Nobody even remembered it a couple of years into the war.
For that matter, nobody remembers the invasion of Panama, the Iran Hostages and the cute piece of horse trading Reagan lackeys used to keep those hostages in prison until after the election in exchange for weaponry. Nobody even remembers the Bay of Pigs. Or the devil-take-the-hindmost last minute graveyards voting in South Texas that won the election for John Kennedy.
So if you don’t understand what the hell we’re doing talking about military involvement in the vicinity of Russia and the Ukraine, don’t worry. A year from now you won’t remember it anyway. Same with Syria, Iran, everywhere else it’s more comfortable for the government if you forget.
You’ll remember North Korea. Be consoled. And you’ll remember that someone in Palestine shot the finger at an Israeli and caused them to have to carpet bomb some town or city full of unarmed civilians to get at suspected terrorists.
Be consoled though. The guy in the White House won’t remember it, either.
Old Jules
So Far From Heaven 