Here's to the peace movementAmen, brother. I can NOT put into words how much this feels like Veet Naaaam all over again. The arrogant leaders leading us straight over a cliff. The utter lack of practical planning. The absence of proper training and equipment for a war we are not equipped to fight. The derision at the early objectors. The late to the party celebs telling us how they were really AGAINST the enterprise when they supported it earlier. The slowly, slowly growing groundswell of public diapproval. The ongoing carnage of loyal and brave young Americans caught in a foreign land where they don't understand the culture or the language or the reason they are seeing their bretheren dismembered, disemboweled, shreiking in unendurable pain as their too too fragile bodies are ripped assunder, the commitment to send more and more troops, the looking at neighboring countries as possible attack targets by those same leaders who got us into this shit in the first place, or their successors, the weeping and wailing about what a disaster will befall the poor country if we withdraw, the handwringing over local politicians who refuse to genuflect to the Great White Father who installed them in power and insist on doing things their own way, the internal fractionalization over religion (today is sunnis vs shiites, but before it was buddhists vs catholics), a US Embassy surrounded by battlements and guards and looking about as out of place as a pyramid in Times Square.
I tell ya, lads. To my aged eyes, its the same script updated. But we're not gonna like the ending any more than we did the first time around.
