“You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.”
Jeannette Rankin (1880 - 1973)
So the fighting continues. Of course I never expected it would be over anytime soon. When you have one side that’s motivated by money (let’s be honest) and another that has a religious belief you can’t expect it to be quick in any sense of the word. Unless the oil should dry up all of the sudden. I’m not so much disturbed by the continued fighting and loss of life as I am that we tend to deny the history of the combatants. It would be nice if we were like G.I. Joe…just fighting for freedom where ever there’s trouble. The thing is we fight for profit. I mean it’s a capitalist country folks. That means that cash rules. If there was profit in Somalia we’d be over there in a heartbeat. I remember being a young man and wanting to join the military. I thought that I would be helping the world become a better place. In reality I would have the same effect if I became a contract killer, just without the uniform…and I’d get paid more. As a matter of fact I think paid killers should be used more. The discret cats that can kill the president of a country with a fork. Then perhaps we can avoid more than a thousands of deaths each year in the countries we run through. I mean soldiers try to keep politics off their mind so they can do their jobs…assassins don’t have such problems. Their politics are “show me the money”. If I’m getting a few hundred thousand to kill you all I’m worried about is the deposit. Since I can get into any country and kill someone under high security people tend to make with the money. A hired killer doesn’t have to worry about the ramifications of Obamamania. Plus a gun for hire tends to be kinda discreet. I keep thinking about that old saying, “What’s that got to do with the price of tea in China?” We need to revamp and bring that back. “What’s that got to do with the price of oil at OPEC?” Fitting. Appropriate. True. Ah to relive my ignorant G.I. Joe fantasy. Now I know though, Cobra really just wants the U.S.A. to get out of their country and let them run it. Destro says if ya’ll got nukes why can’t I have none. Tomax and Xamot just want to do business that will profit their country without having to make sure the U.S. is getting it’s cut. Let’s put this in schools as the definitive explanation of foreign policy.