The title
to this piece is meant as a tip of the hat to [Good Morning, Vietnam]. Yeah, it is confusing to me, as well.
Nonetheless,
it shouldn’t be confusing to anyone that Afghanistan has become Vietnam all
over again for us. For the vicious cycle
of secure--withdraw--re-secure of territory keeps being repeated at great cost to both lives and funds.
I suppose
I still have some blind patriotism left in me.
For I do not consider Vietnam as being a lost war, but it sure was a
humiliating mistake. For after all of
the napalm and agent orange had cleared from the air, even someone as
conservatively cross-eyed as I used to be could see that many in the south had been
playing one side against the other, and that the North Vietnamese weren’t about
to take their marching orders from the Soviet Union—let alone communist China.
Hence,
another Vietnam all over again in Afghanistan thing.
For President Karzai has been screaming for us to get out of his country
in an effort to appease the Taliban, and since we can’t just kill them all, it
is time to leave before the getting’ gets worse.
Sorry,
some of “me” came out in that last part.
For I know that it would not be good for us to kill everyone in the
region without caring about who was what, but the longer we leave our troops
there as target practice for the enemy, who may have been considered friends
just the day before, the more we will be hearing about massacres of innocents
by the hands of those who were once innocent themselves.
Oh, and
brace yourself for what will happen if SSgt. Bales is not quickly (we are
talking about in less than a month here) sentenced to death, which would be a
great tragedy in and of itself—regardless of how long it takes. For there is not a doubt in my mind that he
was not at all in control of his actions, but try telling that to a Afghanistan
tribesman, who has grew up with blood for blood being a given.
No, I don’t
think we will have to wait for a verdict.
For spiriting Bales out of the country is another decision that the ones
who ran the show in Vietnam could appreciate.
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3 comments:
But the US had to go and fight in Vietnam, because the Vietnamese were on the verge of mounting a huge US attack, right? Oh wait, they were just picking on the French...
Thanks for stopping by again, my dear RN!!! The original premise for going into Vietnam was to stop the domino effect of communism taking over all of Asia, which proved to be completely wrong.
That's all thanks to the Truman doctrine, one of the stupidest policies ever established by the US.
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