Happy Holidays In Iraq!
Hello readers, friends, fans, disgruntled vets and everyone that didn’t vote for G.W. Bush! Yes I am still here fresh off a one-month hiatus and returning from the front lines with my boy, your friend and our news anchor Mr. Anderson Cooper. Seriously I am just waiting for that guy to end up kidnapped any day now, followed by his head being sent to CNN and the live footage being shown on the Al Jazeera English Website. For those who could not understand a beheading in angry Arabic you can now get it in angry broken English on the Al Jazeera English website. Don’t you just love America!
Instead of coming home for the holidays my best friend and our troops are stuck “staying the course”, but if the White House is not going to use that phrase any more, then neither am I. So good-bye “course”, hello “War Zone” (and no I am not talking about Oakland, CA either. Brothers in Oakland aren’t waking up until 12 noon). There are close to 3,000 American soldiers dead and close to 46,000 Iraqi civilians dead or reported missing and now our government has to convince the troops that they are still fighting “the good fight.” Most of them are coming to grips with the reality that the country they swore to protect lied to them. But by “staying the course” so long tensions in the Middle East as a whole have grown and will continue to rise, and with 35-40% of our ground forces in that region of the world alone we are starting to look like the early 19th or 20th century occupiers of Europe. The world has learned lessons from Vietnam. The Muslim states saw what happened to their neighbors just to the south in Africa. Specifically, how outsiders left that continent once it was depleted of resources. Now these countries have been thrown into what was just until recently called genocide. Now we call it something much sexier- “sectarian violence”. I mean it’s just a little sectarian violence, it’s not like one half of the country against the other half. That would be what you old timers call civil war. God forbid, but every country that has to over come a tyrant soon has to overcome itself one day, it’s just that simple. We, as members of the world community, should know this best. Name one country that does not have some sort of Independence Day.
Until we resolve this jumbled mess overseas, more of our sons, daughters, and best friends die. More fathers miss their son’s football games, more mothers lie to their kids, the more families fall apart due to infidelity, and the dumber America looks abroad, especially for sending Geraldo (and his hair), Anderson Cooper and other media types like that to the frontlines for educational value, our viewing pleasure, and undeniable unintentional comedy.
So for Christmas this year when you don’t get what you want remember our troops. When you are over stuffed from dinner this holiday remember our troops. When you are ringing in the New Year with champagne and kisses, remember the men and women that make it possible. Remember the thousands of 19-20 year olds who leave their families and put their futures in the hands of our government and our enemies just so we can have protection, peace of mind and all the other things we stand for. Let’s just make sure we stand for something!
Allan Miller
Instead of coming home for the holidays my best friend and our troops are stuck “staying the course”, but if the White House is not going to use that phrase any more, then neither am I. So good-bye “course”, hello “War Zone” (and no I am not talking about Oakland, CA either. Brothers in Oakland aren’t waking up until 12 noon). There are close to 3,000 American soldiers dead and close to 46,000 Iraqi civilians dead or reported missing and now our government has to convince the troops that they are still fighting “the good fight.” Most of them are coming to grips with the reality that the country they swore to protect lied to them. But by “staying the course” so long tensions in the Middle East as a whole have grown and will continue to rise, and with 35-40% of our ground forces in that region of the world alone we are starting to look like the early 19th or 20th century occupiers of Europe. The world has learned lessons from Vietnam. The Muslim states saw what happened to their neighbors just to the south in Africa. Specifically, how outsiders left that continent once it was depleted of resources. Now these countries have been thrown into what was just until recently called genocide. Now we call it something much sexier- “sectarian violence”. I mean it’s just a little sectarian violence, it’s not like one half of the country against the other half. That would be what you old timers call civil war. God forbid, but every country that has to over come a tyrant soon has to overcome itself one day, it’s just that simple. We, as members of the world community, should know this best. Name one country that does not have some sort of Independence Day.
Until we resolve this jumbled mess overseas, more of our sons, daughters, and best friends die. More fathers miss their son’s football games, more mothers lie to their kids, the more families fall apart due to infidelity, and the dumber America looks abroad, especially for sending Geraldo (and his hair), Anderson Cooper and other media types like that to the frontlines for educational value, our viewing pleasure, and undeniable unintentional comedy.
So for Christmas this year when you don’t get what you want remember our troops. When you are over stuffed from dinner this holiday remember our troops. When you are ringing in the New Year with champagne and kisses, remember the men and women that make it possible. Remember the thousands of 19-20 year olds who leave their families and put their futures in the hands of our government and our enemies just so we can have protection, peace of mind and all the other things we stand for. Let’s just make sure we stand for something!
Allan Miller
posted by San Jose Silicon Valley NAACP @ 1:57 PM
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