A human act once set in motion flows on
forever to the great account.
Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are."
George Meredith
Stop Me if You've
Heard This One, John Henry
by GENE MARX
As if the winds of war weren't already approaching gale
force in the wrong direction for the US and its NATO counterparts in
Afghanistan, contrary to Administration talking points designed to polish this
turd of an Occupation, Army
Staff SGT Robert Bales went on a village-to-village, house-to-house killing
spree. With whatever thought process he
had at his disposal after three combat tours in Iraq, he permanently liberated
by summary execution 17 Afghan villagers from the Taliban. To make matters worse for embattled US Defense
Secretary Leon Panetta, Bales admitted it. Not even a shot, excuse the double entendre, at
an effective cover-up.
Before the cordite -- or more accurately, smoke from the charred
remains of victims, including pre-teens and toddlers - had even settled in the
villages of Balandi and Alkozai in Kandahar province, stock apologies began to
roll out from NATO heavy weights, followed by new song and dances from Afghanistan
President Hamid Karzai. Familiar outcries
of recrimination laced with demands for answers and the removal of ISAF security
forces from every Afghan village outposts are making those villas in Dubai look
better with every massacre.
As if synchronized, and against a backdrop of an early cherry
blossom blooms, atonement echoed from the White House Rose Garden. After all, with more than ten years in
southern Asia and almost as many end states for victory, apologies are now
Commander-in-Chief stock-in-trade. Once
again our latest war president pledged a thorough investigation, and then
followed up with a very Presidential, in fact
rhetorically perfect, act of contrition.
"We're heartbroken over the
loss of innocent life. The killing of
innocent civilians is outrageous and
it's unacceptable. It's not who we are
as a country, and it does not represent our military."
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