It’s 1965 All Over Again!!!!

I just watched Skippy’s lame-ass justification for his failed Iraq war and policy.

Let’s recap, shall we?

We’re going to send another 21,000 troops over there, thereby escalating the war in the hope of imposing our definition of democracy and settling a civil war through military means, propping up a puppet government that has no popular support along the way (never mind that with an all-volunteer army that’s already stretched too thin, we’re really jeopardizing our national security in order to pursue a failed policy)….

We’re going to spend zillions of dollars trying to win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people by trying to give them jobs when this is about political power and revenge for years of abuse at the hands of the ruling majority…in other words, the hearts and minds can’t be won…..

Many of the generals continue to think that there is a military solution to a civil war that this country is not a party to….

The U. S. government continues to fail to realize that it is, in fact, a civil war, and not an “us versus them” threat to U. S. national security, and that if we fail in Iraq, the rest of the dominoes in the Muslim world will fall to the Communists….oops, I mean Islamic terrorists….

The president has just gambled his presidency on an ill-advised and ultimately doomed military fiasco in the mistaken belief that political and sectarian differences can be settled militarily and that the people will welcome democracy with open arms….

Oh, my God….I just realized that it’s 1965 all over again!!!!

And the outcome is destined to be just the same as it was then….just like in 1965, we’re going to feed lots of fresh meat into the meat grinder, all but wrecking the U. S. military and economy in the process, and for what?

Who says history doesn’t repeat itself?

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose–the more things change, the more they remain the same…..