A lament for reality and knowledge of the facts

A lament for reality and knowledge of the facts

As Marine I reluctantly accept the image of the Marines, which is disappointing to me. From Americans who think I am a baby killer and a mother raper who mindlessly follows orders from above; to a being person who had to kill and eat a grandmother just to join the Marines in WWII (taught by a grandmother to her granddaughter in Okinawa), I have to accept that is just what people often say and think.  That is just the way it is whether I like it or not.

So when I hear an American elected state representative in Michigan say Texas is not a border state (with Mexico) I am both embarrassed and a little enraged.  This elected person is an elected decision maker who is not too swift in her education, I guess. I don’t live there and certainly don’t know this person.  I just write it off to the inevitable results of “dumbing down” their population, but don’t really know for sure. It is just an opinion. Like I said, I don’t live there, though I did visit relatives (decades ago) who use to live there (in a Detroit suburb).  They were good people in my mind, and I enjoyed their company and ideas. I both learned from them, and respected them.  I am not a serf. I think I am better than that in the new world USA.

I now listen to our present federal president similarly demonstrate his poor education and knowledge as to foreign names and locations. Now extra people are going to have to die as a result.  What a shame.

And now the war drums seem to be beating again in the USA.  And now that I am an old person (age 66 and Marine who probably won’t be taken (oops drafted)) it is easy to “beat the war drums” knowing I will now probably now be protected by younger people who may now die before their time. Even I am growing a garden for my own part, by the way.  As much as I politically oppose the present federal president and his hired lightweights (also called amateurs and courtesans to many, and many of them seem to be also immoral), I do agree in the traditional American sentiment to try avoid foreign entanglements if we can. After all most foreigners are from the old world with their own problems, and we are the new world.  Mostly I fear our present American political leaders will make lightweight decisions that will affect us all (often reacting short term vice acting long term). But if we can’t avoid these entanglements, I sure hope we try to win as quickly as we can and get it over with. This line of thought always brings up the classical arguments like “the value and method of cutting the baby in half”, the quick offense (with the usual higher initial casualties) vice the extended offense (with the hopefully lesser total casualties), say one thing and then do another, use half measures, use lying as way to rule, postponing the obvious, surrendering to a regional power, and even using our moral values about the value of one life; and whether the individual can always dictate to the majority what we are going to do in the end. And then there is the idea of bleeding a nation and its people to death, usually a tax and borrowing financing slow death prompted by a leader and other rulers. Rome did not last forever, either.

Just how they will “react” to smaller problems like occurring on our Southern USA Border, and legalizing some drugs, remains to be seen, too.  These are examples of leadership, experience, learning, and acting vice reacting having consequences to our Country.

And this discussion assumes leaders know about leadership, like their own leadership. If they don’t know much about national leadership, then things are really serious in the consequences to most people. Like up to millions may die as a result. What a shame. Only time will tell.

And how much time will future leaders in the USA and the World have to take just to change the present courses of action being taken today in the USA, and dealing with their consequences.

And to continue, one of the world’s big religions is Islam.  Now Christianity is even bigger in numbers, by the way. And, again in my opinion, Islam is a good and big religion, and many of my employees (in America) after I left active duty in the Marines, were Muslim, and generally speaking were very good Family people and hard and smart workers.  But don’t people know that most Muslims are not Arabs (I think not), especially the crazy Arab terrorist types, who are another breed altogether and are a legitimate military type target and threat to America and its people, again in my opinion. Since we do have enemies who are Muslim, but not all are Muslims, just this one sub-group should be eradicated from the face of the earth, including their financiers I would add. I personally think that this course of action will probably not happen any time soon, and that is probably because I am not an American politician in 2014. I am just an American.

By the way, it is enjoyable to see moneyed Arab terrorist groups pee away their money in foreign lands, kind of like we seem to also do these days, too. Most missionaries (from all religions) already know this. Our American media doesn’t report this to “we the people”, by the way. How much do you know about Sulu land in the Philippines, for example?  How much does the media know?

It is enjoyable seeing predictions coming to fruition, usually when I guessed it right. Yep even I have an ego, of sorts. Now sometimes I get it wrong.  But usually I get it right about what will happen, though when it will happen is even more difficult to predict, and I usually get that wrong. Often I am too aggressive or optimistic about the timing. Things (usually change in the status quo) just takes longer than I hoped for, but again, that is just the way things are. So here in America I sense a change is already underway. Mostly it is the rise a new political party that is based upon ideas and not some rich man’s personal beliefs and money (the traditional American way). Already this rise is happening under the media defined name of the “Tea Party”. One can even say it is more like a movement than a “political party”. Now to me, the two present national political parties have had their fair chance for over a century, and have subsequently become less useful to our future, and most likely will just fade away and be replaced. Only time will tell when it becomes more obvious to most, of course.

And for the last two centuries our USA governance has been dominated by our now present good Americans who live in the area between Boston and Washington, DC. This area has been dubbed by many a megalopolis and is full of good Americans, again in my opinion. Our main media hubs are mostly based there, too. But the USA is now even much larger and better prepared to govern itself with all Americans stepping up to the plate. This is a seismic political change to me, especially if it even happens. If you buy this idea, then much change is coming.

So, like we use to say in the Navy, stand by for heavy rolls.  And as Bob Dylan sang, “the times they are a’changing”.