Ted Rall for January 18, 2011

ZING!!

Ouch.

My history teacher in college said there will always be wars…because wars are exciting. The peasant in the fields laboring to feed his wife and children, living a drab existence, will suddenly feel the sense of purpose in his life, and the adrenaline flows when he picks up a gun and with his fellow compatriots, march off to save the village/country/fatherland/motherland/nest.

^ Right, because toiling in the fields to feed one’s family isn’t a purpose in life. :-|

Your history teacher, kreole, should have taught you that there will always be wars because men will always make power grabs for more land. Wars are started by leaders, not by peasants in the fields! We originally got involved in Iraq over a land dispute.

kreole’s history teacher’s analysis is almost exactly a synopsis of Jean-Luc Godard’s Les Carabiniers.

That drone looks like a flying piece of…Forget it.

RV,

Is that why we went into Afghanistan? I thought it was bringing democracy? btw, How’d we do getting bin Laden?

It occurs to me that OJ Simpson was about as likely to find Nicole’s real killer as he vowed to do, as Bush was likely to find Bin Laden, which he also vowed to do…

I remember waking up one Sunday morning to the drum beat of “We Got HIM!” (Saddam Hussein) and thinking, that’s not the ‘him’ we were after…

At least Shrub got even with Saddam for trying to kill George I. Of course thousands of people died to accomplish that, but they weren’t relatives so didn’t count.

Every American should read “Every Man In This Village is a Liar” by Megan Stack. She describes the (nasty) world of dictators, and those who are “collateral damage” to American ignorance.

Sooky Rottweiler says; Stupid humans!

Tiger-striped Mittaines says;

Stupid hum…

…EWWWWWW! I agree with Flea Motel! How weird!

RV

Well said.

Speaking of another think, I’m kind of excited that we are into our 9th consecutive - 1 year war in Afghanistan.

At least, that’s how the leadership wants us to think about it.

Nearly a decade without tangible results. Could you imagine getting away with this if they were running a school district?

Let’s see 18 Saudis attacked the US, so we attacked Afghanistan.

Then the President who was appointed attacked a soverign country which was supposed to have WMDs and didn’t.

And I lament that my paperback copy of 1984 fell apart so I had to throw it away. It was like a general guide to where we are going.

^ It was not the Taliban that directed and funded 9/11, it was Al Queda. The Taliban did allow OBL and company to train and setup camp in their country, however, so when they wouldn’t turn him over the invasion was justified.

Too bad W and the neocons were too busy drooling over Iraq to finish the job getting OBL.

No, Kitt, I’m not sure they were too busy but, the alternative is that they actually planned to screw up the Afghan war as bad as they did. Which take them from incompetent to unbelievably evil.

^^ My use of the word “evil” has no religious connotation, purely moral like you said.