Those numbers and letters should be rolling around in your mind, threatening your very sanity. What, you ask, is the significance? Harmlessly, they are the number of the weeks in a year,but woe upon us, for here this is not the point. The Madman of Washington, the Monster in the White House, he, Captain Bone Spurs, has made a decision, as usual a bad one, and has placed us all in a real mess. A mess with blood staining it throughout.
After blustering and wavering all over the place for three years, for threatening and never coming through, for making a damned fool of himself and a mockery of the country, Trump decided to act. Act without permission of Congress as is supposed to be done. Without informing the leadership of the House and Senate, only the ever increasingly demented lackey, Lindsay Graham.
He struck and killed Suleimani, admittedly a bad person and the director of a policy definitely inimical to the USA. However, a huge however, former Presidents , one of whom had caused the capture and killing of Bin Laden, both decided that his death by American hands, certainly in a big manner, would lead to more problems, bloody, literally bloody, problems for us. Yet there he went, this ass, this clear and present danger to the country. Any which way you look at it.
Where does 52 come in? The man boasts, boasts, mind you, that he has picked out 52 sites of Iran and Iraq which have cultural significance. Cultural!!!! What the hell happened to rules of engagement? What happened to Geneva Conventions? What happened to decency in harsh times? What happened to running a conflict via soldiers, not civilians? Or are we planning to wage war a la Assad, a la Russia, a la Malaysia, a la any and all countries which wage war on civilians? Are we going to have the bombings of London, of Coventry, of Dresden, of Aleppo, and on and on and on, to replicate itself now, again? Are we going to have more 9/11 attacks? 52 times. Fifty two times that we attack civilian targets?
For a man who has stated and tweeted and bellowed so many times that he is going to bring the troops home, bring them back, we are now sending over 3500 more soldiers to Iran and that is only the beginning. We are going for an outright war with a country that has no compunctions about terrorism and has allies crazier than they are. Are we expected to stand by and watch the closest target, Israel, as proxy for America, be bombed almost out of existence, with civilians paying the bloody and awful price as missiles rain down upon the cities and towns of the country? What have we allowed to happen? Why have we allowed this? Why?
Yes, Iran is a country of Moslem extremists. Yes, it is a country which has sponsored terrorism. But it is also a country that has suffered under sanctions; they were working, there was progress, despite all the hot air out of the mouths of their leader and ours. But now? Now the people are united against the big bad bully of America. Now two traditional enemies, Iran and Iraq, are united against America. And that threat of 52 screams danger, peril, in a high shrieking tone.
So the protests begin. The man who has violated so many rules, broken so many laws, is now breaking even more to place our country, our population, in an existential danger. There apparently will be no rules in this war and remember who will pay heavy prices indeed. Who will be crying and screaming, terrified, homeless, refugees in their own country - and I mean US!!!
Yes, there are dreadful times that demand that a war be waged, but this is not one of them, certainly not. We have caused this by stupidity, by lack of coordination, by a man who makes a tragic decision like this in less time than it takes him to chew a bite of hamburger and then returned to his party planning activities and his golf dates. This is not right. Never could be. The man is now not only a criminal in the courts of the land by his actions, but is also going to be declared a war criminal !!! Yes, and still the President of this country?!
As for us, will the Selective Service Sysem, the draft boards, the draft iself, be reinstated? And remember, folks, gender equality and we will be sending our daughters off to war along with our sons. But make ya a bet - no Trump will see war other than in the uniform of an appointed general in the backlands of war!!! All the better to ramp up the destruction we are plannning to wreak upon the world, courtesy of Mr. 52 planned hits on civilian targets, on the history of the world, on ignoring miltary targets, on defending the homeland, on dealing with angered former allies, with the deaths of so many all over the world, with the rising anti Semitism that will ramp up even more as Israel and Jews get blamed for this, and all caused by a demented failure of a man who somehow convinced enough people into voting for him. Shame on us!! We truly get the government we deserved, did we not!
So here we are again. Back to war protests, to demonstrations, to flag draped coffins coming home in ever increasing numbers, to an even larger divide of the country. Will we see all the old pros of the 60's back on the protest lines? Will we once again fear a shooting of students on campus? Are we going to spit on the poor soldiers, drafted into war through no want of their own? Are we going to see military rule of the country, a dissolving of the civilian government, the long term aim of that man in DC?
No, do not think the trouble ends after the 52nd attack, for this is a war that can engulf the entire world, drag it into the flames of war, heating the air too hot to breathe, a war such as we will never have seen before. A war which could drastically change, alter, the very fabric of the earth and our civilization. Shatter it totally, as insane people drag us into the halls of nuclear weapons and their use. 52? No, disaster!!
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