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The Anonymous Anything Society March 20, 2013
THE REASON AMERICA IS VIRTUALLY BANKRUPT
It was Sunday and the deadline clock was ticking down on the search for
a good topic, when I chanced to watch former Undersecretary of Defense
and later the discharged head of The World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz, being
interviewed on CNN.
Ten years ago, Wolfowitz was the principal war hawk who sold his
superiors on the idea that Saddam "Spider Hole" Hussein was about to
vaporize us and perhaps the rest of the world with Weapons of Mass
Destruction. Wolfowitz had little trouble in persuading us to wage a
war that has cost America the flower of our youth and
only-god-know-how-many-billions-of totally wasted treasure.
Forget Afghanistan. What we could have accomplished with one
well-placed Predator missile has turned out to be, next to our
adventure in Southeast Asia, America's Greatest Disaster. Until
Iraq implodes, we may be able to buy Iraqi oil at an exorbitant price,
but the tears of the opium poppy is Afghanistan's only product. I
have come to the conclusion that a nut case and a cabal of thieves will
be fortunate if they survive our departure from Kabul.
But, back to CNN: I shuddered as I watched this friendly, courteous,
reasonable, well-spoken little man - so neat, not a hair out of place,
smiling so genuinely at the interviewer on CNN. Our leaders, most
notably the head of the CIA, bought into the myth that Wolfowitz was
peddling. To my utter amazement last Sunday, Wolfowitz continues
to maintain that he was dead-on right. I experienced something akin to
a flashback straight out of "Lord of the Rings."
I can't understand why the USA has to be in a war on the average of every 30 years or so. Sometimes sooner.
Well, let it go. Continuing to grind your teeth will only cause one to
make more contributions to your dentist's retirement plan.
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