A Country Rag

Serve and Support

Among the multitudinous "messes" left for the American people (and others in the world) and the Obama/Biden Administration to clean and straighten up is the prior one's negligent and profoundly negligible offense against Taliban insurgents, whose various behaviors in denigrating and destroying ancient artifacts and healthful conditions for women and children, particularly, are well-known. There is no excuse for the greatest military power EVER on earth to be bogged down in stalemate for eight years in the small and ancient, land-locked country of Afghanistan. Except that the prior Bush/Cheney Administration and its commercial military suppliers did not want to win -- there or in Iraq or anywhere else -- but preferred and exacerbated variously perpetual warfare for the deplorably dependable filling of corporate and executive coffers in consequence of that economic strategy. Our military personnel were not well-equipped or supported otherwise. Morale was low, psychological problems high, and both issues unaddressed effectively. This is another way to assure that battle conditions are prolonged indefinitely at just the level of minimal maintenance. Acknowledging that comparisons are odious, tiny but hi-tech and highly motivated Israel defeated the combined hostile forces and might of all of its neighboring nations in six days once. Surely it should not take over 400 times that long for the Commander-in-Chief of the monumental United States of America to quell and conquer a rogue government in a county the size of Afghanistan (which is additionally largely mountainous and unpopulated as well as poor and illiterate). We do now need to provide generously in every way for our magnificent armed forces, including awesome hi-tech materiel down to the basics of good toothpaste and socks, so they can, along with Allied personnel and governments, as swiftly and effectively as possible defeat and/or convert the darkly savage Taliban guerillas and establish stable, real democratic government and social structures for the worn and weary Afghan people. This is an endeavor and ultimate victory of which they and we will be proud as pursued in accordance with our deeply-held national principles and ideals of assisting others in re/claiming their freedom. Our foreparents didn't believe in "peace at any price," and neither should we. The alternative of abandoning Afghans to a chaotically torturous and deadly barbarity caused in considerable detail by nefarious activities of our prior usurpatious pseudo-government is not acceptable or honorable, humane or just now. We must, as Winston Churchill once advised, "carry on," but with intelligent, skilled and determined intent of triumph over corruption and tyranny. God bless, guide and protect the men and women we send knowingly "into harm's way" for higher purpose that "coins and bread," and their sacrificing families also. WIN, and come home.