More Troops, More Money, More Time

WASHINGTON – The U.S. general put in charge of turning around the war in Afghanistan is likely to recommend significant changes in the campaign and may include a request for more U.S. forces that the White House is expected to resist.

Surprise, surprise. Once the Washington politicians started letting the generals tell them how to conduct the wars, the wars got longer, more expensive and more deadly.

These generals, whose only business is war, are going to keep these wars, and a few new ones, going forever... If possible. And they will, so long as the politicians let them have their way.

The White House? Resist? The "Commander-in-Chief" (chuckle) will complain a bit publicly and then proceed as usual.

We are about to witness the final outcome of the Iraq war. When our troops are finally removed from this place that had nothing whatever to do with 911, Iraq will revert to exactly what it was the day we invaded. The lives lost, the money spent, the political cost paid, all will have been for nothing. If you believe otherwise, you are in for a severe shock.

And Afghanistan? Who in the hell are they trying to kid? It is a place stuck in the 12th century: Mud shacks, dirt floors, no roads, little or no electricity, running water or future. It is an isolated pocket of the world - trapped in the past - where people like Osama could hide, nothing more.

Who are we fighting there? A few hundred ragheads armed with AK-47's and a few RPG's. Yet our generals would have us believe they are fighting us to a standstill. What total crap. If Washington had the true desire to win this "war", it would have been done years ago. but Bush and his warpigs need places like Afghanistan and men like Osama to survive. This is the "war" these generals want to promote endlessly, and so they shall, because Obama will let them. Just like Bush, Obama will need wars to keep the public eye turned away.

The military will get many more promotions, many more medals, gobs of honor for heroic deeds like serious paper cuts, all that military stuff our bought-out politicians are supposed to keep in check.

Us? We'll just have more dead sons and daughters and more unpayable bills.

And we'll always have our football and baseball and TV and video games to keep us occupied... and uninformed.