A SHOT OF TRUTH
WAR AND THE CURRENT MILITARY DILEMMA
Wars are won by killing the enemy and by accepting the inevitability of casualties and by no other method. Since World War two, the U.S. Government has allowed its economy to become dependent on military spending. Hence, the military no longer defends the people by fighting every couple of decades, but postures in a primitive, ineffective, and expensive chest beating display called deterrence. Deterrence allows us to continue the military expenditure that would take place during a major war during peacetime. The human and financial resources thus cannot be used for the direct benefit if the people. As I have already stated, people will not defend a government unless they see a direct benefit from the existence of that government. As we discovered in Vietnam, and the Russians discovered in Afghanistan, the other warriors out there aren’t there for show. They are willing to fight for real and to take casualties like real soldiers as opposed to play soldiers. Vietnamese, Somali, and Muslim fighters aren’t in the service because they saw a bunch of movies which glamorized war. These fighters aren’t trying to get money for college, or to see more of the world than their small town whose biggest attraction is the Wal Mart. They are there to fight and no other reason. This is why the U.S. and Soviet Union didn’t smash the “weaker” countries as they expected to. Although we were world powers, our soldiers were actors and not killers. In addition, we became and still are addicted to air power and special forces. In world war two, air power was effective in actual fighting because most of our enemies had never seen an airplane before and ground warfare hadn’t adapted to the airplane. The enemy would simply aim their rifles upward and were mowed down by cannons made to kill other aircraft, tanks, and even ships. Airplanes fly far too high and fast now to matter against enemy infantry, because the enemy will not face airpower. They will only be driven underground and become impossible to locate. In addition to the adaptation of “enemy” infantry to airpower, we must also take onto account the adaptation of the enemy supply system to airpower. In World War Two, our enemy used an easily detectable supply system exactly like ours. They had factories, flagged cargo vessels, air fields, and railroads. These modes of transportation are vulnerable to bombers and airborne troops. As we experienced in Vietnam, once the enemy starts importing military goods from nations eager to sell or donate their unused military stockpiles, and those goods are carried piece by piece into the battlefield on foot, interdiction becomes nearly impossible. “The front”, as it was known to our forefathers no longer exists, therefore our enemy’s primary weapons are all manportable and are carried to wherever the action is. We then end up using a million dollar bomb load against a $50 used AK47 and that leads to bankruptcy. Now, our real enemies see airplanes as a mere inconvenience, or a great opportunity to go underground and get some rest before they rush us. Another over employed resource of our military is special forces. Special forces should exist for reconnaissance, demolitions, and assassinations only and should be used for no other purpose. Special forces are a sidearm because they simply do not pack the striking power nor do they operate in significant numbers, for operations that make a difference. As we discovered in Somalia in 1993, it doesn’t matter how elite or “special” you are, if you get outnumbered and surrounded, you get killed! Special just means you get to ride the little bus to school. Both special forces and air power did a great job of looking cool during the Vietnam war, but we still lost. The brunt of any military effort must be infantry, artillery, and armor. Air power, sea power, and special forces must act to support the people fighting on the ground and never try to replace them. Since Korea, our enemies have stopped fighting for air and sea superiority, but have been using large unit infantry tactics very effectively against our soldiers and Marines. The dedicated political, racist, or religious extremist must be overwhelmed by force of numbers, because like the power he or she represents, human beings are not a priority of the extremist. Now we’re faced with a new war in Afghanistan with a strategy that spells disaster. It started with undecisive, ineffective Middle East policy which I’ll discuss later. First of all, after September 11, 2001 we gave Osama Bin Laden and Mullah Mohammed Omar Months to get into the underground and to prepare for any attack; so it is likely that they will never be found no matter what we do now. (I now know that Osama Bin Laden is either on the U.S. Government payroll, or probably does not even exist! There may be a heavily disguised actor that plays him for the cameras.) Secondly, we once again have become too dependent on airpower and special forces, while allowing our main forces to succumb to sheer boredom. Afghanistan is a pourous country as large as Texas, and if you’re going to find anybody, you’ll need lots of eyes.
The right wing ideology is one fraught with hippocrasy. It goes back and fourth in so many ways. It doesn’t even serve itself. What I will do now is demonstrate how self defeating most right wing arguments are. I’ll start with social issues and proceed from there.
The Truth: America needs health care coverage for all of its people.
The right winger will say he doesn’t want to pay for it and that he shouldn’t have to. Actually, healthcare costs us so much precisely because it isn't readily available to everyone. This is because people who do not get regular checkups wind up in emergency rooms and on operating tables for illnesses that could have been detected early or avoided altogether had they had regular visits to a primary care provider. Also, many ilnesses from AIDS to Tuberculosis are transittable to others regardless of class or race. Treating the less well off thus saves the rest of us from almost 300 million potential carriers of disease. In the course of treating patients, many methods to treat and cure all people are discovered. The truth is Everyone benefits from universal health care availability. Why are we saturated with pictures and video clips of children receiving free medical care from our troops abroad when its needed right here? The conservative doesn’t object to that kid in Afghanistan getting a free doctor’s visit, so why doesn’t he want his poor neighbor’s kid to get the same treatment. Right wingers are willing to spend hundreds of billions of dollars fighting “terrorists” who they believe killed 3000 Americans several years ago, but they don’t want to spend any money fighting diseases that killed millions of Americans last year. Where is the logic in that? Most people don’t want to fight a disease until it affects a family member or someone they know. Chances are, if you haven’t lost a family member to one or more of the big four yet, (Heart Disease, Cancer, Diabetes, AIDS), then you will, so join the fight for a cure now against at least one of the above, or you’ll wish you did later. Why do we refuse to believe that diseases are our nation’s worst threat and spend accordingly? Is it because these diseases aren’t as spectacular as a jetliner flying into a skyscraper or a suicide bomber attack? Well I’ll promise you, if you lose your eyesight, or have a tumor eating away at one of your vital organs, you’ll think its pretty damn spectacular! Maybe its because we can’t fight diseases in the same cinematic, action packed way the right thinks we can fight terrorism. Yeah, that’s it. Nobody wants to spend months in a theater watching some biologist fight a virus or watching a bio-engineer develop a substitute for the pancreas. That wouldn’t sell tickets.
The Truth: If you don’t want an abortion, don’t get one. If you are a man, shut up!
Again, we go into values. The right winger argues that the sanctity of life and the value of life is being thrown away. Sanctities and rights that are apparently null and void if they cannot afford care. As a chauvinist ideology, conservatives believe that a woman’s potential to make the most out of her life is much less important than the life of a potentially male child. On anti abortion commercials, if a woman is depicted dreaming about the kid she could have had, the lost kid is invariably male. Pro life activists are predominantly male, while pro choice activists are predominantly female. It’s obvious, even if you can’t read their minds like in that movie, what women want. I find it odd that a group so convinced by racist ideology that poor black women are out to have lots of babies so they can get on welfare and steal all our money doesn’t want a poor woman to have a right to an abortion. When unwanted children are neglected and become the most violent criminals, conservatives want them executed. Yet they want unwanted children to be born into circumstances which will make them violent criminals. Is this not strange?
The Truth: If you believe in America, invest in its future. Support public education.
I’ve already discussed this issue, so let’s have a little fun this time.
The conservative responds with people should pay for their own kids education.
OK, lets follow that philosophy. If I am to be held responsible for my own kids education, then why not my own defense from foreign invaders. I have a gun in my house as do most Americans. If an invader or a terrorist comes to my house, I’ll blow their head off. If I protect my own family from invaders or terrorists and everyone else does as well, we shouldn’t have to pay for national defense. I don’t think any Republican would agree with this adaptation of their own philosophy. Heck, while I’m at it, I’ll repave the section of sidewalk and street in front of my house, so I don’t have to pay taxes for that either. In addition, lets make everyone a licensed paramedic and let them put the law in their own hands, we’ll save loads of tax money!!!! Seriously, money we don't put into educating a child will go to incarcerating an adult. And the latter is exponentially more expensive especially when you figure in the innocent lives they will destroy before they are captured.
The Truth: There is no war on terror! We can’t capture or kill every “terrorist”.
First of all, the "arab terrorists" who supposedly committed the horrible atrocities against humanity on September 11, 2001 are all dead if the governmnet story is true, which it isn't! Those terrorists would have received their deserved fates nanoseconds after their roles in the horrible attacks were completed. The terrorists that started this awful mess are supposedly dead, so the war against them is over. These days, a terrorist can be anyone. Anyone who disagrees with the current right wing insanity is a terrorist. Iraqis who just want their country back are now terrorists. Its strange how someone whose country is invaded is a terrorist for attempting to remove an invader from his country. It makes no sense that President Bush pursues a “Faith Based Initiative” in the U.S., yet when Iraqis pursue the same goals of less secular government, they are called terrorists. I have come to the conclusion that a faith based initiative is only acceptable to the president if the initiative is based upon his faith.
The right has difficulty seeing the world through any other eyes but their own. This handicap leaves them unable to negotiate, or to see peace as a viable option; so I’ve devised a way to help them walk in someone else’s shoes. I call it
Ten ways to turn a Bush backer into a "terrorist.”
1. Let Branch Davidians have the State of Texas. They suffered a lot and lost a lot of people during the early nineties, and after all, it is their holy land.
2.Give the Davidians all the money they need so they can buy weapons to subdue any Texan that gives them trouble. Let them force any Texan that won’t leave or just die into a giant refugee camp in the Panhandle.
3. Convince most of the world that Christianity, especially Baptist Christianity is a religion of hatred and its followers are ignorant, inferior blood thirsty barbarians. Convince the world that all Christians are bent on a global war that will kill or convert all current nonbelievers.
4. Set up 10 checkpoints requiring long, thorough searches between his home and place of employment. Set up another 10 between his home and every other place they go to regularly, e.g. store, bar, church, relatives and friends houses, etc.
5. Invade his home in the middle of the night searching for bombs and guns, preferably while his wife is completely naked. (Complete nakedness is comparable to a Muslim woman being out of her hajab, or in her night dress and requires the same privacy.)
6. Drop a 2000 pound bomb on his parents house or that of an adult sibling; killing or crippling and horribly disfiguring anyone in the house.
7. Order him locked up for months in a hellish prison and have him tortured in various Sado-Masochistic, homoerotic ways while taking pictures and insulting his religion. Then show the pictures to the entire world. When your strange antics are discovered, do not accept responsibility. Blame some poor private you ordered to do the horrible deed even though he or she had no choice in the matter.
8. Replace the governor of all fifty States (except Texas which now belongs to the Branch Davidians) with a tyrant who will imprison him if he dares speak his mind, and who has anti despotism activists and their families executed daily in public. As you did with the Branch Davidians, give the dictators enough money to buy all the weapons they want to subdue their people.
9. Now encourage the state tyrants to go to war against each other, dividing America and allowing the states governments to slaughter each other’s citizens with the weapons you helped them buy.
10. If anyone has a disagreement with Branch Davidian Texas, always back Texas.
Anybody who resists your policies is a terrorist. Any American who disagrees with your policies is a traitor and a supporter of terrorism.
No one could be more eager to end “The War On Terror” than myself. When we stop making enemies, we can concentrate on combating our own problems which are doing Americans much more harm than those of the rest of the world.
If you paid attention, you’d notice that I said “end” the current conflict, not win it.
Winning a war is an old, outdated concept. A civilization that was in imminent danger of enslavement or extinction, but avoided it due to a brave armed resistance may be described as a victor in war. The United States, however, is not at risk of such a fate, and hasn’t been since Germany and Japan initiated their withdrawals in World War two.
Perhaps the greatest problem the United States has is it’s insistence upon engaging in or interfering in military conflict that doesn’t threaten its existence. All conflicts in the second half of this century are included. In Korea, we were forced into a truce by millions of well armed men (a sufficient amount of regular infantry if I may say so myself) who were willing to die for what they believed in. None of these men came to the United States subsequently to destroy our way of life or our American dream. Vietnam, was a straight loss! Millions of tons of bombs were dropped in raids that made those on Germany and Japan appear as childs play. However, sufficient amounts of comitted infantrymen and women; who’s civilization actually hung in the balance; proved invincible. After centuries of war, the yoke of oppression was thrown off by the Vietnamese people. Since the United States still exists today as a world power, it is apparent that winning the aforementioned conflicts was not essential to the survival of our civilization. If this is indeed the case, why did we sacrifice over one hundred thousand of our own people, kill untold millions of our fellow human beings, and spend enough money to solve most, if not all of America’s fiscal problems?
I was a democrat, but I now know the purpose of the Democrat party is to give in to the Republican party. The amount of time the White House has been occupied by a Democrat versus a Republican easily proves this. The so called "liberal democrats" you hear on corporate radio and on corporate television almost always cower and wimper their points unlike their more agressive party line spouting brethren. If you just listen to both sides, it's easy to see just how little they actually differ if at all.
Then you have "liberal Democrats" like Joe Lieberman whose every other sentence involves explosive increases in defense spending and support for Israel. I was fooled by these bastards until I saw them throw the second election away when there was clear evidence of cheating and other forms of dishonesty. The way I learned it, if one person on the team cheats, the whole team looses and that includes the entire Bush campaign. If the "democrats" are just going to throw elections, what more proof do you need that they work for exactly the same entities as the Bush administration?
The United States brought Saddam Hussein to power and sustained him while he comitted his atrocities. The United States gave Saddam his arsenal and the money to grow it. Calling us liberators is like rewarding an axe murderer for later removing his axe from your back. He put it there in the first place and he should be punished. We helped put Saddam there in the first place and supported him when Iran had him beat. Despite our eventual removal of Saddam, we are getting punished by those we harmed by putting Saddam there in the first place.
The Iraqi people are not going to allow us to steal their oil with another puppet government. Yes, only allowing 5% of their oil's value to go to the most powerful Iraqi puppets is also theft. Iraqis will finally have control of their oil and there's nothing "patriots" can do about it.
I personally don't give a fuck what happens over there. That's for the Iraqi people to decide. Let them live by Islamic law, have a civil war, do the watoosie. I just don't want any more of our youth or our tax dollars getting wasted to steal oil and kill civilians.
Wake up with the following websites!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
www.911inplanesite.com 911 was undertaken by the federal government, not by
"muslim extremists".
www.911truth.org Debunking the lies behind the government story about 911.
www.infowars.com Describing 911 as part of larger government campaign against our
freedoms to travel freely, bear arms, assemble, etc, etc.
www.prisonplanet.com Same as above.
www.ericblumrich.com Skip directly to ANIMATIONS, "YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT
WORK". Look war in the face and call it what it is, pure evil! This is what the "pro lifers" support! You will never sleep soundly again!!! Depleted uranium is America's Zyklon B!!! It's radiation will continue to kill and disfigure iraqis for millennia.
www.robert-fisk.com Click on "pictures" below to see pictures of freedom. Horray we're free!!!!!!!!!
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