No Easy Solutions

Congratulations to Mr. Roger Federer for his fifteenth grand slam victory to pass Pete Sampras. His victory at Wimbledon certainly did not come easy as Andy Roddick gave him that run for his money--16-14 in the final set. And certainly do want to acknowledge the tragic death of a great athlete in our time, Steve McNair. It certainly came as shock, as something such as this usually will whenever you've watched an athlete such as him for many years. You feel that certain connection.


I wanted to continue from my last blog concerning the withdrawing of U.S. troops from Iraq. For the last few days, Vice-President Joe Biden was in Iraq doing. . . whatever. So I'll just come out and say it--why are we not thinking about nuclear weapons to end this war? I'm sure the terrorists have been thinking about it. And even if it should not end the war--right away (I'm sure it won't), I'm sure it'll make these monsters think long and hard about wanting to continue. Seems to me we should have enough intelligence by now as to where these cruel deviants dwell (at least en masse) so that they can be hindered greatly so as not to have to sacrifice the lives of any more of our fine fighting men.


I mean why is that so hard to deliberate or consider, particularly when it comes to the valuable lives of our American soldiers? Doesn't make sense to me. Doesn't make any sense that if we know Iran is behind all of this, that we are not going to confront them with deadly force. Confront them with real deadly force as to prevent more American soldier's lives from needlessly being sacrificed. It's almost criminal in my view not to even consider it. Sure, I know the greatly feared collateral damage will be involved. No doubt, the press will continually remind us of that fact. They will no doubt remind us of those images of grossly burnt people from Nagasaki and Hiroshima that will forever be etched or ingrained in our minds, and I believe it should be as such. Nuclear attack is not a subject that should be taken lightly. In fact, it may be we ourselves who will be attacked again (most likely with atomic weapons) before they decide that they have had enough. Nothing is known for sure, but I believe eventually we'll have to find out. There are no easy solutions to this world conflict.


But one thing I am sure of is that we are not--repeat--not fighting a stateless enemy. I'm tired of hearing that since these killers don't wear uniforms (Then explain to me why we continually see images of a certain group of "people" somewhere in the Gaza Strip wearing black or green uniforms, covering their heads with black hoods, carrying AK-47s marching around in unison. That looks like an organized army to me, whether they be storekeepers or whatever. Why do you suppose they're wearing those hoods? So that their mommies won't recognize them and get mad at them for playing soldier?) and don't have ships or airplanes that there really is no country that can be held accountable. Bull.


Yes, "horsehockey" (Col. Potter--M.A.S.H.), the lives of our soldiers are too valuable to believe otherwise. Now for whatever reason President Obama right now is withdrawing troops from Iraq whether it be because Iraq is stable enough or perhaps it may be from some earlier agreement (or demand from) with Mr. al-Maliki, I exhort him to consider the well being of our soldiers. If Mr. al-Maliki doesn't the troops there anymore, then get them the heck out brutha. Get them out. Whatever the President's agenda may be, let no more troop's lives be unnecessarily sacrificed if they are not going to be allowed to fight with all vigor. Not to be held back because of some bad press of civilians being killed such as is what is happening in Afghanistan. Ridiculous.

Now at this point it may not matter to the President what reason the troops should leave. . . whether the time is right, whether he actually cares for their well being. I'm certain the main reason is that it is most expedient that he looks good in the eyes of the American Left and the rest of the world. If things go well, then no doubt he will be taking the lion's share of the credit. If things turn out disastrous, then he'll just blame it on the "failed policies of the past administration."--an exercise he has mastered by now.