Musings of a Dumb Ass

The absence of an identifiable enemy complicates war. It has been so since men began killing each other.

To help matters out someone long ago came up with the idea to dress armies in a certain way so they could simply kill each other and generally leave everyone else alone except for destroying private property and taking assets away from those in the way, and of course killing anyone who might piss them off for any reason, and occasionally raping the women found along the way.

This worked well for a very long time and the uniforms of the enemy became the identifier that we all hated.

As we became more civilized right and wrong became the reason we warred, more so than the wishes of an individual ruler. It should be said that right and wrong has always been up to the victor as opposed to real right and wrong.

When we invaded Iraq the standing army that existed under Saddam was defeated in real time in about 24 hours.

That particular invasion by us, fundamentally changed the way we do war forever more because we attacked a country who had no ability to do us harm. There are those who might differ with that assessment but they wouldn't last long in the court of debate. We continued on with our rampage, and with no identifiable enemy it became an attack on the people on the streets of Iraq, who predictably hate us with a venomous passion and desire to get us out at any price and plant bombs on the side of the roads for us to drive over to say so. When a bomb goes off and takes the lives of our finest we say it was done by the enemy, but we can't identify who that is and find victory impossible to acheive, and it will always be that way.

Now we are looking at the ninth year of the same travesty in Afghanistan and no end is in sight. There is no standing army to shoot and no uniforms to aim at, so we are relegated to the same failure we've experienced in Iraq and it will only get worse. There is no victory to be had in an American sponsored puppet government. We should have learned that from Viet-Nam, Iran and now Iraq, and Pakistan, but we march on in Afghanistan as if we are hypnotized and unable to reason. If Osama is what we're after, we simply should have taken him and be done with that. There is no point in saying we can't find him. That only insults the intelligence of the brain dead.

We're decimating the soul of our country with our behaviour. Not only worldwide, but in the halls of Congress, but as history dictates, we won't last much longer........