injaynesworld it’s “Another Fucking War…”

I don't give a shit about Syria.  Fifteen hundred men, women and children massacred in a deadly saran gas attack by their own government and I can't get it up to find the outrage.  What a rotten excuse for a human being I am.

I’m sorry.  I can’t help it.   I’m done with war.   And you know why?   Because I can no longer differentiate between the good guys and the bad guys.

There was a time when that seemed so clear.   Then came Vietnam and it played out on television leaving indelible images of carnage in my young, impressionable, albeit mostly stoned mind.   The realization that we, the United States of America, were the bad guys had never before occurred to anyone of my generation, or the generations preceding mine either.  

A sacred trust was forever shattered and bad foreign policy after bad foreign policy since then has left me with no belief in our ability to do good anywhere in the world anymore when it comes to military intervention.   With the possible exception of Bosnia, we’ve fucked up everything we’ve touched in the last 40 years.  

France is so eager to punish Syria, let them.   They owe us for Vietnam anyway.   Jordan has an air force.  Why can’t they go drop some bombs?    Israel, stop worrying about your own ass and cover ours for a change.    We let our own people go without food, shelter and health care.   Our educational system is a shambles.   Our bridges are falling down.   Today a one-year-old child was shot in the head with a bullet intended for his father.   Twenty-six innocents slaughtered at Sandy Hook and we still care more about gun “rights” than human life in this country, so don’t try to sell me on the outrage over loss of life in Syria.  I really can’t get worked up over it.

They can take care of their own damn problems.   Let’s take the billions we’d spend on bombing raids and put it to work helping our own people.  

Believe it or not, I woke up this morning intending to write a humorous post.   Major fail.