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Nov. 26, 2004 We sat down today to a huge meal of fattened turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, gravy, and all the trimmings. We drank wine, beer, and cola. No one spoke of war, politics, and crime. We watched two pretty lousy football games and talked about family stuff. No one said much about being thankful for anything, nobody felt the need I guess, but we had fun only as families do. It’s nice not to think about all the rotten things occurring out there in the world. For a day we felt safe. That’s what it’s all about I think, feeling safe. Unfortunately, feeling safe in America seems to require us to aggress globally. It’s always been that way, except of course during the isolationist years, Monroe Doctrine was it? We actually survived the Isolationist years. We actually prospered in those years. Teddy Roosevelt broke us loose from this stance and of course the rest is history. We have taken an aggressive global stance from 1898 forward. Our children and often our best have died on foreign soil. Today over 1200 of our best have died on the sands of Iraq, most of them died “after” our Commander-and-Chief declared that major combat was over. What was his definition of major combat? How qualified is he to be the Commander-and Chief? How qualified is Condi Rice to be our Secretary of State? Colin Powell the only brilliant military man in the Administration has stepped down. In my opinion the Administration also took a step down with him. As a nation we have not learned much over the years. We were bogged down in a war that was never proclaimed a war in Vietnam. We now are bogged down in a war that was basically declared over a year ago. Have we learned from Vietnam? No. We won in World War II because Germany was attacked by our friends on several fronts, and because we let loose on Hiroshima the deadliest warhorse ever created. Germany folded and Japan relented because we committed to victory. Notice the operative word, “committed.” We have not committed enough troops to win in Iraq, only enough to get our boys killed and maimed.
What are you thankful for on this
Thanksgiving Day? I am thankful on this day
that President Bush will only be in office four
more years. I hope that whomever succeeds him
will end this war, this war that will surely
ruin our credibility in the world.
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