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The War Without End

That’s right….I will keep harping on this war thing until someone realizes how pathetic and unnecessary it all really is……

Remember back in 2003 when there was this huge banner hung for all the world to see….”Mission Accomplished”…..

And since that day we have been up to our collective butts in conflict in Iraq…..I will not mention Afghanistan, that will be for another day…..we have pulled our troops out and almost immediately started sending them back in to the conflict……

This is becoming truly a war without end…..

Below is an interview about the war that the US cannot move beyond…..

The U.S. is at war with the same extremist group it claimed to have defeated five years ago, and it’s relying on sectarian extremists to “win” again.

Source: The Iraq War Never Ended: An Interview with Anand Gopal | Opinion | teleSUR English

Some Americans felt optimistic when the US started bringing our troops home….but that was just a momentary thing…..and Obama returned our troops into the sandbox……and there is NO relief in sight……

In a press conference during his visit to Saudi Arabia, President Obama talked up the idea of keeping the US military presence in Iraq, which continues to grow, deployed in the country for the long term, citing the country’s instability as proof that America needs to be more involved.

Iraq’s parliament is in a state of crisis over the past week, with a proposed cabinet leading to fist-fights on the parliament’s floor and the sacking of the speaker. Since then, Iraq’s parliament has not successfully had a single session.

Obama called on Iraq to immediately finalize a new cabinet so they could focus on the war, and suggested that increases in US funding for the Iraqi government were to be based heavily on Iraq’s ability to get a new cabinet in place.

It would appear that our attempt at nation building did not go as well as some had thought.  Not even a bribe of massive amounts of cash has brought about any stability……so see  money cannot buy everything.

This situation will not end well….no amount of promises and slogans will see this thing to a calmer conclusion…..

Our society is fragmented, our economy is rigged and the only thing my granddaughter has to look forward to is more war and more frequent wars….our children deserve better.

13 thoughts on “The War Without End”

  4. Yes, our children deserve better but given the lineup of candidates and their reputations and rhetoric I don’t think our children are going to get any better …. not for a long, long, long time!

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  5. No comment needed from me; your first lines, and the last, said all that needs saying….

    The pharoah(ess) IS fascinating, (so is Lady P. btw… *wink*…), and provides yet more evidence that men have always pretty much been assholes….

    gigoid, the dubious

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  6. This war without end & without borders was unimaginable even after 9/11. It was just supposed to be about “rubble bouncing” in Afghanistan and “uh-let’s pretend Iraq was in on it too”. Not only aren’t those 2 wars over, more wars have been added to the list. The entire globe has been declared a the frontline.

    Fifteen years later, this perpetual global war has become so normalized that people don’t even give it a moment’s thought. It’s now almost impossible to fathom it EVER ending….or even just being limited to one or two countries.

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