Get... Out... Now...

Where is the leadership, and "hope and change" when you really need it?

Please -- don't tell me this is the work of one renegade soldier. Like it or not, this is the work of America now. Nevermind the promises, and purple finger assurances to the women and men on how much better their lives can be with our Western ways...

We've simply "helped" enough.
We've shown the world how to kill our way to success, wealth and prosperity; peace for all. Or not.

Perhaps it's time we concentrated a bit more on our Christian origins in this country, and nevermind all the "we've got your back" promises.

Success ... it's really working out so well for America, in terms of money, reputation and character-building abroad.

Just remember, folks:
No tears, no complaints, no calls for mercy, when we Americans start experiencing -- here -- what we've done unto others over there...

It's not a game, people.
Try as we might, it's getting harder and harder to look away, and pretend that the (non) leadership and political gamesmanship has our country's -- and our soldiers' -- best interests at heart.

Dead children, unarmed elderly, and then desecration of the bodies...
Don't look away.
Think of 9-11: remember the children left orphaned that day, the officeworkers who jumped to their deaths ... and then ask yourself: "Haven't we had our fill of vengeance yet?" , "Is this really the new American way?" and especially, "Is continued military involvement over there really so essential to our safety here?"


It's costing us big these wars, and in the future, your children will pay for it. If you don't care about human life outside your own kind, calculate the monetary cost...

The only wise calculation is to get out. Yesterday.


ADDED: The president likes to insert his two little girls into political frays when it suits him, as in the recent attempts to pretend contraceptives are at risk of being banned.

I wonder: how will he respond if only he was able to envision his own daughters' brown faces on the corpses of those little Afghan girls stacked like cordwood and lit on fire after they were killed?

Bin Laden is dead.
We have no further business there.
This is why wise people counsel against never-ending wars, and rather a "get-in-get-out-get-the-job-done-and-go" style of fighting.

We're not Israel. We're America.
It's not our neighborhood, and we haven't land-grabbed nor pissed off our neighbors, nor cheated in obtaining nuclear weapons while promising to deny them to others who fear our continually destructive, ideological ways.

This isn't our fight anymore.