ENDLESS WARS


 


 


 


R. A. Schultz


 


 


 


 


 


Sometime back in 1965, during my junior year as a political science major at C. W. Post College of Long Island University, and during an intense interchange of ideas with other students over large quantities of single malt, at the home of one of the deans, I made the observation that we Americans were being not only arrogant but naïve in our persisting in trying to sow the seeds of Jeffersonian democracy in parts of the third world that would likely not offer any degree of fertility in the foreseeable future.  I still hold firmly to that belief.  Indeed, geopolitical events during the past half century have considerably reinforced it.  No matter how hard we try, or how much capital in lives or fortune that we squander, we will never succeed in electing Thomas Jefferson president of Botswana, or of Iraq or Afghanistan, for that matter.


 


 


 


The recent departures from the Trump administration of two of my favorite people, James Mattis and John Bolton, left me with somewhat mixed feelings about both, but the fact that they disagreed with the Boss about responses to aggression and the maintenance of higher troop levels in some world hot spots rendered their departures inevitable.


 


 


 


As to the ongoing unpleasantness in Afghanistan, my own thoughts  originally were that we should bomb the living sh*t out of the place, collateral damage be damned, and that we should never ever commit ground troops to combat there.  If a thorough carpet bombing of the sh*thole didn’t accomplish our objectives, we should seriously consider nucleating the place – just simply wiping it off the face of the earth, perhaps resulting in the creation of the Sea of Afghanistan, with a minor outlet to the Indian Ocean!


 


 


 


With a nod to just how terribly politically incorrect such action might be perceived not only by the effete elite of the New World Order but also by the great masses of the world’s unwashed who still manage to receive their daily dose of leftist bullsh*t from the likes of CNN, I’ve put that line of thinking on temporary hold while I attempt to evaluate the consequences.


 


 


 


Mattis and Bolton favored continued high levels of troop deployment in Afghanistan in hopes of preventing that failed state from again becoming world headquarters for the purveyors of rabid Islamic jihad.  I guess that plan might be a tad closer than my own to the political correctness that infests every facet of our existence, but the Boss wants our troops home, so that’s the way it’s going to be.  My solution to the Afghan problem will likely remain the stuff of presidential daydreams, but nothing more.


 

Topics: MODERN WARFARE
Linda Mihalic
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  • September 21, 2019
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