A reply to Miss M. Mahaska: Your submission was published about two years ago. You asked some interesting questions. Why do we go to war, why us, and when will our troops come home?
Here's an old country boys take on that. Our troops are global today and global to stay. Shoot, Cupcake, we're bigger than the Brookfield Zoo, Superman and the Fourth of July all tucked in the same bundle.
Just our blue ocean Navy alone dwarfs all others. Our ships are like cities. They've just got dinghies. Now they might win the bathtub race at the Louisiana state fair, but they aren't big enough to export freedom across old McDonald's duck shootin' pond. If not us, then who?
We're big business and we visualize a world worth creating. It's that tug-and-grunt, beat-the-clock, make-the-impossible-deadline jazz that accomplishes that.
Sitting at some tribal farm market nibbling turnips and chatting up the occasional passerby is what we find people doing in a rogue state. That's because they're a little short on jobs.
A rogue nation's business leaders are not allowed to spend company money to create jobs. That's because companies in a rogue are state owned, so that dictator gets to use that money however he wishes.
He lives a lavish lifestyle while 60 percent of his people are unemployed. Some Iraqis have suggested they'd sooner die than live like we do. Lucky for them, dead people can't make a production schedule.
When are our troops coming home? I'd be hard pressed to give a date specific on that, but let me see if I can put you in the ballpark.
Currently, there are 32 rogue states remaining, that's the good news. The bad news is they still cover about half the world's total land mass. So in this wonderful world we're trying to create for ourselves, we're only half done. If I were you, Cupcake, I wouldn't turn the porch light on.
That's the one thing Shrub (George Bush) got right when he said, "Our war on terror (poverty) will last many years." That's a good thing because if we got-r-done, what on earth would we do?
