This is a war of aggression

[OldRedneck]

95. The Best and the Brightest

Back in the 1960's, when I was a young Army lieutenant I was 10-feet tall and bulletproof; I jumped out of airplanes, cleared out bars, thought beer was one of the seven basic food groups. The Best and the Brightest told me I should go to Vietnam and kill commies otherwise the commies would be in the streets of Hawaii.

So I went to Vietnam a couple of times and killed a stack of commies; got myself shot a time or two in the process.

Then somewhere along the line -- after 60,000 body bags came home -- we realized The Best and The Brightest were full of shit. And now we buy our Nikes from Vietnam.

The Best and the Brightest told us about WMD, mushroom clouds over American cities, we believed 'em, and 4,500 GI's died in Iraq.

Everyone tells us we need to go after the threat du'jour because of 9-11. 9-11 did not fundamentally damage this country -- after 9-11 we did not repeal the Constitution; didn't cancel elections; didn't close churches, schools, fraternal organizations, charities; didn't abolish Congress, state legislatures, county commissions.

If a member of "ISIS" with a US passport shoots up a shopping mall, well, we've had shopping malls shot up before.

It wasn't Al Qaeda who destroyed the housing market in 2008. It's not the Taliban passing the laws restricting people from voting. It's not ISIS who is causing our national infrastructure to crumble. All the "Mooslim terrorists" in the world didn't cause global warming.

One sign of a collapsing empire is the empire's involvement in non-consequential wars on the periphery while the fundamentals collapse at home.

And now The Best and The Brightest are at it again. Don't fall for it.