Recalcitrant generals are the symptom. Bad wars are the problem. We should never have started the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Both are horrid abominations, immoral atrocities of a faithless people, who put their hopes more in their military might than in the God they proclaim so patriotically to trust.
The fact is that 9/11 scared America so much that it lost touch with reason, that sanctuary of fact and perspective that leads to truth and justice. The Bush/Cheney team had their own narrow agenda, long planned before 9/11, consisting of equal parts ideology (the neocon agenda per the Project for a New American Century), oil, the corporate military industrial complex and revenge.
Acting in a manner repugnant to both the Constitution and the Bible, the Bush team cooked the facts, and used its propaganda mouthpieces, including such local lapdogs as the Rush-infested WHAS, to mislead a weary, fear-prone populace to support their wayward wars as matters of self-preservation when the precise opposite was true: These wars make us less safe and jeopardize our long-term security. Even one human life is precious; we’ve wasted millions. Each tax dollar is vital, we'll have squandered trillions. And we tripled a military budget that was already more than the rest of the world combined when Bush took office. All on account of some rogue criminals, who did most of their 9/11 planning right here on American soil.
Our brave military soldiers are the real heroes. Like a well-oiled gun, their duty is to be ready whenever called upon to act. The bad leaders who wrongly call them to action are the guilty ones, and they must stand trial to answer for their crimes.
President Obama must get us out of Afghanistan and Iraq. We aren't wanted there. We can't change a culture, their religion or their history, nor should we. We are fighting natives who defend their homeland -- just as we would our own. Al-Qaida is long gone, and just may be a red herring in any case. (Bush/Cheney let bin Laden escape Tora Bora in November 2001.)
End the wars and use multi-national intelligence, economic and diplomatic tools to create stability there, security here and justice everywhere.
