We are in a Real Deal, Ugly-Assed War!

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

Yup, there it is folks.   The "excursion" that our Blowhard-in-Chief said we won on day one, is now in its fourth week with no sign of ending anytime soon, and we continue to dig in deeper.   There were already approximately 50,000 US troops situated around the Middle East when Triump and Netanyahu started their mad assault on Iran, with many of them today functioning as targets for Iranian missiles and drones.  Next the Trump administration announced that a couple of thousand Marines were being sent from Okinawa, presumaby to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz so the planet can get its oil supply replenished and the oil companies and Middle Eastern governments can continue to suck in their profits.   That was followed days later by a second announcement that 2,500 more Marines were being shipped in from California - bringing that total to five or six thousand young marines who should have boots on the ground by mid-April.

This morning the Trump administration, which has more leaks than the Titanic, is smugly and unofficially reporting that between 1,000 and 4,000 troops from the 82nd Airborne Division at Ft. Bragg are packing their rucksacks in preparation for an imminent deployment into the "excursion."  

We are at war, folks.  A real deal, ugly-assed war that is being planned and led by crooked real estate developers, profiteers, grifters, and washed-up former Fox News personalities.   What the hell could possible go wrong?  Those of us of a certain age remember Lyndon Johnson's rapid expansion of a small "exxpeditionary" force in Vietnam back in the 1960's to a meat grinder with more that half-a-million US troops on the ground and ultimate US deaths that numbered over 50,000.   Donald John Trump may have been too busy on the golf course to know much about that war, but millions of Americans and their families remember the horrors of war, vividly.  Walter Cronkite brought the mud and blood of Vietnam into our living rooms each evening and gave us daily body counts.

Now we are back in another one.  The hornet's nest has been kicked, and it will be the hornets who decide when it is over and at what cost.