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Irregular commentary on whatever's on my mind -- politics, sports, current events, and life in general. After twenty years of writing business and community newsletters, fifteen years of fantasy baseball newsletters, and two years of email "columns", this is, I suppose, the inevitable result: the awful conceit that someone might actually care to read what I have to say. Posts may be added often, rarely, or never again. As always, my mood and motivation are unpredictable.

Buster Gammons















Thursday, February 12, 2015

Proof That I Don't Always Agree With My Cousin Barry


 President Obama today asked Congress for "war powers" to fight ISIS/ISIL for the next three years.  (Aren't we already bombing them on behalf of Jordan, the Saudis and others?)  He says ISIS could become a threat to us here in the U.S.  (Doubtful.)  The President says our involvement will not be "long-term or large-scale" like Iraq or Afghanistan.  (Good, but if that's the case, why bother?  And why us?  If the need is short and small, let someone else do it.)
Our presence would be limited to intelligence collection, rescue operations, special ops to takeout ISIS leaders (good, I guess), and "kinetic strikes".  (WTF is that?)

So, Buster, what's your opinion?

After careful consideration, how about NOOOOOO!!!!!   Will our military misadventures in this bad neck of the woods never end?  Yes, Dubya stupidly put us on this path over a decade ago, but that was then, this is now and this is Obama's call.  We're already "helping" over there.  We're already engaged.  Do we really need the Congressional stamp of approval to make it official?  Enough war already!  (And once again, we're declaring "war on terrorism," an absurd and impossible concept.  It's a war against a noun, a war against a tactic.  Have we learned nothing?)  

No, wait -- I get it!  We're not playing world-cop again in the quagmire of the Middle East, we're just launching a jobs and economic stimulus program:  jobs in the armed forces for our under-employed youth, and economic stimulus for our downtrodden military contractors.





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