Get Out of Their Backyards

You ever try to be someone's peace keeper? It's a real tough duty. If the situation is particularly volatile then you probably end up with a shot or two to the chops. You must merely stand and take it. There aint no getting back at the person who did it to you because if you do then you merely become a participant in the battle you meant to break up.

You ever get real upset at your partner for calling over Jimmy from across the street to show YOU how to do something in the handyman area? She hardly even asked you, only witnessed your frustration and yet here is Jimmy and he is showing off to both you and your partner....Oh, and he might even throw in some help as well but that is truly secondary in your brain. All you see is him doing something easily that you either couldn't do whatsoever or had an immense amount of trouble doing by yourself. Still, if you needed the fricking help, you would've asked and had the right of choosing whom, out of the many candidates in your brain (1 or 2), you may ask. So even in the end when the task is complete and all is finally working, you still feel less about the end result now than you would have if you were allowed to make your own decision.

Those who have difficulty understanding the above logic will also not understand why other countries do not want help thrust upon them by other countries. With America and the Middle East, the conclusion amongst most of the folks in Iran/Iraq?Afghanistan is that the Americans are there (AGAIN) merely to steal their Oil. The conclusion by the natives can certainly not be classified as unjust or unfounded as history would show that even administrations as supposedly holy as the Democratic Kennedy one had big plans for Oil they did not own. The interests of the natives seemed a distant second or third all the way back to the 1950's in concern with the American relations with Middle East countries. Now, almost 8 years into his administration, George Bush feels it time to go visit the Middle East. George Bush might stand forever as the greatest creator of Distrust in the Middle East and yet, for some unknown reason, he thinks he can swoosh on over and save their world.

Note to George and to Ex-Wife (in regards to bringing over Billy to SHOW ME HOW I should do things)........Fuck off!

Now if the chief is getting the big FU then why do we still think it alright to send some of our best kids?

Do you really think that your Chief is being received well in the Middle East by the people who matter...uh....that being, the PEOPLE!??!?!?!

And then we have the poor boys from Canada. All alone, on a Desert Island.....'cept it isn't an island. In fact it only seems as such because it is being cut off, quickly, from safety. The island that is home base for the Canadian soldiers is a land that is so far from safe that no other nation has proposed to go into and assist because of the lack of safe ground all around it. The battle is going to get worse, not better, and the bags coming home now at a somewhat alarming rate will become much more frequent as the days pass. The war against Terror is about to get worse. The death of Bhutto assures that much. The coming elections and fall out from what may happen there are either going to keep the ugly status quo or make it even worse. If, as Barack Obama states, the Taliban is finding safe havens in certain parts of Pakistan then those grounds are almost adjacent to where the Canadian regiment now sits. The area is a time bomb. The time is near for a great loss of Canadian Soldiers and then the typical reacting Government to sort of kind of act......only once the people finally get up as one and demand as such.

I never really had much trouble with Soldiers going over and doing their thing. It is how they are built. There are a great many who wouldn't give up the right to go and use their supplied arms on someone else with the knowledge of complete amnesty from doing so.......but we aint really allowing as such and we aint really mapping out the dangers before they go there. The enemy isn't wearing bright colours. IN fact, most times, the enemy is very difficult to find -- even when they stand right beside you. The war against Terror is now more dangerous than any war because the enemy is everywhere but impossible to see. One might be a Taliban and one might be a poor man who just took a wrong turn down Highway #1.

We haven't a solution to the issues we have at home. Do we really think we have one for the Middle East with all of its historic complication. Bring the boys home. Now!

B