Once More, Into the Breach...

U.S. coalition troops sent to Afghan city to help fight the Taliban
For the first time, coalition officials publicly confirmed that they are actively involved in boosting Afghan troops in Kunduz, a city seized by the Taliban a few days ago.
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Our commander-in-chief is committing forces to Kunduz, Afghanistan -- such a vital interest to U.S. national security. If Kunduz falls, and remains fallen, why will become of our American lives here at home?

The president will be addressing the nation at 10am, to sell the country on the need to go back in, boots on the ground, until all of Afghanistan is a fully functioning democracy. With schools and opportunities for girls, and an American Dream implanted in the heart of each little boy.

No word yet whether his fellow countrymen will back their president's call for ongoing war, to free Kunduz before Halloween comes, so all the children over there can trick-or-treat in safety.




Seriously though, doesn't President Obama have something better to do than to throw good after bad in Afghanistan. I'm kind of hoping and American soldier or two will have his life sacrificed there, so the country can again fully debate whether our minor interventions and peacekeeping -- at a cool distance -- are worth it.

After all, no war is won without joint sacrifice, and here is the president: taking time away from making his mixtapes to once again dabble in foreign wars. That is what we get for electing a junior senator who is an excellent campaigner, but a hands-off politician with zero military smarts, despite being elected on a one-mandate platform: Get. Us. Out.

Besides, if he didn't have Kunduz to clean up after, some people might question his committment to the killings in Chicago, which it definitely IS in our national interests to address and contain...

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,
Have in these parts from morn till even fought
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:
Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.
Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
And teach them how to war...