Look dude, my point is this, and I came to it only after spending a very long time supporting the war effort, supporting the cause, supporting the active struggle against this plague on humanity:
We're playing into their hand when we go to fight. Bin Laden is sitting somewhere, right now, scratching his bearded scankiness, and smiling at how things are going. Of this I am sure. Therefore, the only logical solution would be to do the opposite of what we have been doing. Instead of trying to remake them into something we hold dear, we need to let them go. It may take a year, a decade, a number of decades, but it is we who are empowering them. It is not Allah, or Bin Laden, or images of the deposed Saddam. We created the modern middle east, with our money, with our weapons, even with our concern for their own plight.
Those who manipulate the masses understand this game, and they continue to play us every passing day. And it pains me, to no end, to think of what could have been done with those Billions we've spent on the war. How many of those service men could have been granted college educations, how many engineers we could have created, and yes, how many thus undiscovered oil fields and technologies we could have tapped.
It's gotten to the point where every time I fill up my gas-guzzling truck, I think that I'm feeding those apes, ensuring their future, putting our own youth, who went their because it was their job, at risk.
Yes, the stuff I said is unrealistic. There was no winning after 9/11 because either reaction would have been villified, somehow, somewhere, by somebody. Personally, I like Dos Equis's idea about taking over their oil fields and letting their cities crumble into anarchy, but this would require, again, an investment of time, money and human life, and I'm getting sick and tired of hearing about 'our boys' being hurt and killed by that bearded scum.
You know, I hear this time and time again, and it's really starting to hit home... I was watching an interview with a young soldier in Iraq who spoke of the commonness of the 'uncommon valor'. He said that the opposite of fear is not courage, but love. Those guys are out there, fighting not for the Iraqis, but for each other, for their LIVES. When they storm a building, it's not in the name of GWB or the stars and stripes, or gas prices, it's so that the human vermin they kill today won't live till tomorrow to kill one of them. They're fighting for their lives, each and every day, they're scared, they're frustrated and they're pissed. There's just too much work to be done here to be losing the cream of our youth over there, to say nothing of the money we're wasting on a society that could only benefit the world by ceasing to exist.
Yes, it's unrealistic, but, at the same time, it was also pretty awful to act as predictably as we did. They hit us, we hit them, all the while, we're still paying out the bellybutton for their damned oil, and that money, by one means or another, IS ending up in the pocket of the enemy.
