Stupid intervention tactics and your tax dollars
Just a little rant before starting "work".
Ok, we have a situation where a few of our "best and brightest" went and massacred about 2 dozen people in Iraq. This is a bad thing, and I'm not going to even scratch the surface of all the socio-politico-militaro-religio-etc implications of it.
What gets me, though, is that our answer to this seems to be to send whe whole military to anger-management training. Or ethics training--whatever--probably the same kind of "training" that corporate f**kheads hire consultants for--to make a lot of noise about addressing problems that they don't believe exist, and that they sure as hell won't take responsibility for.
Whether or not 500,000 troops watch a play-acted video featuring a bunch of nice soldiers playing hackeysack with Iraqi kids is really not going to make much of a difference.
It drives me nuts, though--our culture is awash in this shit. Run over a dog, take a week-long driver rehabilitation class. Beat your wife, take a month of group therapy and fill out a form saying you won't beat anyone else for a year. Terrorists strike on your home soil, stick up a rainbow alert system and hawk duct tape at 15 times the cost. Run out of oil, tear up half the Alaskan frontier in the hopes of keeping our SUV culture alive for another 2 months.
That's one thing I hate about this country--these abominably superficial reactions to monumental problems. Reactions that not only don't fix anything, but completely insult the intelligence of the few intelligent citizens out there while scoring political windfalls with the morons (everybody else). No one--NO ONE--tries to get at the root of problems. It's even a problem in our educational system--no one learns concepts anymore--only answers. We can't leave our children behind, can we???
argh....
posted by AntFarm16 @ 09:27
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4 Comments:
Right on. I feel your pain. Now just write all of this on a piece of paper, crumple it up, and throw it in that waste basket - problem solved! Feel better?
Steve,
I totally aggree that we live in superficial, Knee-jerk society that as the attention span of a 24 hour fruit fly. All of this put together really is what is putting our country on a downward trend. A few months ago I saw Dave Chapelle on the actors studio. On thing he said during questions and answers was that American is the greatest country in the world...but it is by default...it can be better. We done talk about sh*t...i am parapharasing but what he made said made sense. there are a lot f talking heads out there but nothing of importance really gets discussed.
This mai lai like incident is really going to be a watershed moment...i have a feeling this incident will give the administration and ecuse to pull out without it looking like it is there fault.
When really it is the Admin's fault...i am not makeing excuses for the marines but early reports are that the killling of a popular marine lead to the inexcusable reaction. But who put the marines in a winless sitution...
Chris Webb--the new voice of leadership. Run for office, man!!
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