Since that day, I've returned to my home town and hit has not been the same anywhere. There's something missing from Manhattan now; but I can't put my finger on just what it is.
Today, I had to take the subway to the City Hall area. When I walked up the stairs, the first thing I noticed (what I always notice) is the hole in my city. I look up as though the towers I've known all my life would simply appear again. I pause for a second, then I'll turn the corner and go about my business... But my mind, stays in that spot for a while... And wonders.
We've been at war for more than eight years... EIGHT YEARS! Fighting against a group of people who are hiding in caves, cowards using things like IEDs, Religion, and from what I'm hearing, even children to do their deeds while they continue to hide and burn Old Glory. But I don't blame them. Not in the least. I blame our leaders who have foolishly used politics and circumstance as an opportunity to make money while the lifeblood drains out of my country. Until 5 November 2008, I was coming close to being ashamed to be an American.
How long did it take us to knock down, not only Hitler (who had nations following him), but also Japan who's mentality alone could have defeated us? Now it is we who have the superior technology... Reading license plates from orbit, self guiding weapons and such. I even watched the demonstration of a sniper rifle that can shoot so far, it needs a computer to calculate it's targeting computing everything from the wind to the curvature of the earth. It took the spotter a half hour to make the round trip (to the other mountain and back) to check the target... Which every round struck. Obviously, it's not the technology.
If handled properly, this whole thing would have been taken care of in a week... Yes, one week. Our leaders dropped the ball... All for the sake of respecting those who do not respect us.
I would like to, one day, understand why. True, there is no respectful way to wage a war. However, there is no reason why it should have ever escalated to what it is now. In fact, this isn't a war... It's a complete mess. It's embarrassing. Five Thousand plus dead service members, countless wounded, and we'll NEVER know the true civilian toll. When the whole thing could have been taken care of with just One Hundred Sailors and Marines carrying the proper tools... No other country needed to get involved, and it would have been minimal US casualties... For the opposition...? The type of whuppin' that kept Lybia silent for so long.
And if you really wanted to prove a point, all that needed to be done was a simple message to one of those lurking Trident Submarines... Nuff Said.
Is it just me? Or does anyone else think there's something wrong with this?
I'm still patriotic... I just needed to vent today.
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