WHO IS THE WORST?
You’re walking into a
movie theatre with some friends and all of a sudden you’re confronted by a man
brandishing a gun. For a split second
you think it can’t be happening to you, but then the bullets strike you and
your heart explodes and you die.
You
don’t see that several others in the theatre also are shot, some killed and
some wounded. It’s pandemonium and the
shooter is eventually subdued, and the police arrive along with first
responders…but you don’t know anything about that because you’re dead.
In the ensuing frantic moments
following the shooting, everybody forms an opinion and some even voice that
opinion. “It was a lone wolf
attack”…”He’s a foreigner”…”he’s Al-Queda”…”He’s ISIS”…”he must have come in
with the refugees from”…and you can fill in the blanks on that one. The point made here is that it doesn’t matter
what you want to call the bad guys, and some women…they have the very same goal
in mind…the terrorization of America,
through acts of violence like the one described here.
There are so many heads to this
Medusa-like monster that killing the monster itself may be a long-term
battle. It’s simply not enough to kill
one head at a time because two grow back in its place. Small, surgical air strikes may be the
administration’s preferred method of waging war, but that’s not going to cut
it. It doesn’t necessarily mean we have
to put troops on hostile soil because we can surveille with drones…they’re not
just for killing. However, once a
drone, or human intelligence, tells us where there’s a concentration of the bad
guys, that location needs to be bombed until it’s nothing but broken rubble and
sand.
General Curtis LeMay of the Air
Force once said that the enemy should be bombed back to the Stone Age, and that
may be the one strategy that would work.
Yes, there are going to be innocent civilians killed, as there were in
World War 2…
but
it was the round-the-clock bombing by air forces that eventually brought Germany to its
knees. The 8th Air Force
lost a tremendous amount of men during that offensive, but with the technology
that we have today I believe that aircrew losses would be much less, if any,
than during that period.
Now, lest you think that all the bad
guys come from the muddled Middle East, let’s
clear that up. North Korea, which has been a thorn in our side
ever since the beginning of the Korean War in the 1950’s…and then there was North Vietnam
in the 1970’s. Those were avowed
enemies…but what about our friends?
During WW2 China was a strong ally of ours against the Japanese and now
we see them as a potential enemy, with them flexing their muscles now and
then. Russia, also a friend during that
same era, began to move away from being our friend right after the war ended
and now it is also flexing its muscles.
Even Cuba, 90 miles
off the coast of Florida,
is now an open country to us, even though nothing has changed there as far as
the government’s policies.
Now then, you ask yourself, who is
the worst out of these countries? I
suggest that we, the United
States, might be the worst since we have
caved in, fumbled the ball, became ostrich-like with our head in the sand…use
whatever cliché suits you. We went from
being the most powerful, the most feared, the most respected, to something very
much like a declining power, headed into the trash heap of history. In my book that makes us the worst. For those of you that are of a certain age,
and may have served in the armed forces of this country when it counted for
something, you could be calling me all sorts of names right now…and I wouldn’t
blame you.
Sometimes the truth, unvarnished and
transparent, can hurt…although you’ll never get that sort of information from
this administration, or any administration.
The standard excuse is that the public would be frightened if they knew
everything the government knew. There
would be panic in the streets. Anarchy
would take over.
All
of that may be true but it strikes me that we don’t know much of the
government’s secrets and we’re still scared!
Who’s the worst in that case…the public that, by and large doesn’t know
and doesn’t care, or the government who does know…but still doesn’t care?
Yeah…this is rambling, but sometimes
during a ramble a glint of truth may pop out.
If something here piques your curiosity it’s incumbent on you to look
into it and see if there’s any truth to what is being said, or if it’s just one
guy’s ranting…which it might be. Much
information is spewed out every day and you should know which is true and which
is not. I leave you with the question
“Who Is The Worst”?
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