The Super-Bully Is Going Down Again! by Stewart Nusbaumer
Here we go again. The world57;s most powerful, well equipped, best trained and certainly most expensive military in the world being worn down and beaten by a rag-tag group of incompetents and morons.
In the 1950s the U.S. military entered the Korean War and battled to a stalemate. Incredible, for the next half century, that has been the high point of U.S. military history. A stalemate!
We went charging into Vietnam, exploding with arrogance, and withdrew beaten and in shame, defeated by an impoverished nation using primitive war technology with fighters running around in pajamas. In the 56;80s Ronald Reagan deployed U.S. Marines to Beirut, to wrap up the Lebanon civil war quickly. Bloodied, Reagan immediately yanked the Marines out. In the 56;90s we charged straight into Mogadishu, Africa -- then straight out of Mogadishu, Africa. Now we57;re in Iraq. How long before we scramble our troops out of this Middle Eastern disaster? Any wagers?
Sure, we have had significant victories in the last half century. In Grenada half our army managed to stomp a few dozen Cuban construction workers armed with the latest shovels. A few years later we blitzed Panama, shooting the country into interesting Swiss cheese patterns, and in the process stumbled upon their whacked-out presidente who we flew back to Miami. Right, Miami is the perfect place for a dope fiend.
The fact is, our country has become severely divorced from reality, and I don57;t mean 60;reality61; television, whose ratings remain strong. America is a superpower 51; the world57;s only superpower 51; and a superpower is supposed to have super power, right? Why, then, in the last half century has our military been stomped, to use the popular phrase, 60;from sea to shining sea61;?
Of course we have the option to nuke our enemies back into the era before SUVs and Dell computers, whether Koreans, Vietnamese, Africans, Arabs, grandmothers 51; hey, we can nuke everyone back to anytime. That57;s what being a superpower is all about. But there is a problem. Most Americans just don57;t feel good about nuking whole families and even nations only because our leaders have a gripe with their leaders, which is what sends our military into battle these days. Think not? When was the last time an Iraqi attacked you?
Our massive conventional firepower 51; planes, artillery and missiles, battleships, submarines, you name it we got it 51; can of course disappear any enemy anywhere. But the problem today is these slimy imbeciles (that57;s the way you describe an enemy) refuse to come out and fight. Regardless of how much the U.S. taxpayers have been milked by our defense corporations, it57;s nearly impossible for our modern tools of death to kill a target that insists upon hiding in the jungle or some dismal back alley. There was a time when warriors didn57;t run and hide. The old days were more fun for the U.S. military.
The larger problem here is obvious. Our enemies refuse to play the role that the Pentagon war planners have assigned to them. We all have a role to play in life; unfortunately these obstinate dunces insist upon playing a role that has not been written into the war script. They refuse to come out in mass, gather on a nice green flat pasture on a clear sunny day, and allow the world57;s most expensive and powerful military to decimate them cleanly and completely. Now, that57;s what war is about.
Although we may have the best universities, I57;m a fine product of Vassar myself, and we have the largest mortgages -- mine will be paid off exactly three months after my 158th birthday -- this doesn57;t mean the rest of the world is stupid. They adapt, they are sneaky because they have to be, and they have lots of time. Americans work more than anyone, even more than the workaholic Japanese. On the other hand, our impoverished enemies don57;t have to be at the office bright and early, which suits them fine since they were out all night planting roadside bombs.
So they have embraced the role that Western strategists call irregular soldier using asymmetrical warfare that stymies, frustrates, slowly bleeds, and finally breaks the will of the greatest military in the world. Not bad for morons. Where the U.S. military is strong, the insurgents avoid; where the U.S. military is weak, the insurgents attack. For the last half century these rag-tag illiterates have done a job on the world57;s superpower. That57;s because the morons use their brains, while the Pentagon only uses our money.
When you were in elementary school, in the rough and tumble world of the school yard, you didn57;t take the bully straight on. Well, if you did, you didn57;t do it again. Instead, you ran up from behind and belted the 4-feet 5-inch giant squarely in the back and then you ran like hell. Bullies are never fast runners. Then you got down on all fours 51; when taking on the bully there was no room for pride 51; and slowly crept up to him and bit his leg and ran like hell. You kept hitting and biting and running until the big brute was in tears and ran off for the teacher.
Well, look closely and you will see that the superpower bully is getting frustrated, starting to look desperate. Listen closely to the American people, and you will hear them screaming for the teacher, screaming to get our troops out. Here we go again.
Stewart Nusbaumer, recently released from Sunny Thoughts Rehabilitation Home, is a veteran of the Vietnam War and has vacationed in approximately a dozen war zones. His current writing project is a book that advocates a U.S. invasion of Detroit, Michigan.
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