I Suppose Afghanistan, Iraq And Libya Are Earth Too.

Even though today is Earth Day, most people either don't know that, or don't care. Corporations think even less of it. Therefore politicians could care less. It's not that they don't like the earth so much as they see earth as a place to either dump their waste or a place to dig up something of worth to them. With the exception of their own little piece of it, where they live. That, of course, is always of great importance. Why do you think they spend so much money spreading poison around to kill weeds and insects? It's because they love their home. Wouldn't you protect your home from invaders like dandelions or flys? After all, it's war. And in war, you pull out all the stops. You go all out to defeat the enemy. And just like real war, you just can't defeat all the enemy. Enemies somehow seem to hang in there and they keep coming back at you. War isn't like it used to be. Was the time when you could go out and whoop an enemy and that was that. Not any more. But that's partly because we don't go all out to win a war any more, except in our back yard around the patio. But in real wars, we just play at it. We drop a bomb or two and send in a missile,. If that doesn't win the war, we send in some more bombs and missiles and some secret advisers. Pretty soon we send in some combat troops, just to mop up. Then we send in a lot more to quash the unrest, then we send in huge numbers of our young people to defeat an enemy we can't find until they're ready to be found. Then we send in body bags to bring back our young people. We spend ourselves into bankruptcy, or nearly so. The troops we send in volunteered to protect their country. We're wasting them in other countries protecting corrupt leaders and people who don't want us there and don't want us protecting them either. Ya know what? If we're not prepared to go into a war, or punitive action or humanitarian effort or any other name for what it really is, if we aren't willing to go all the way, then we need to stay the hell out of it. Stopping a madman from killing his own people is a fine thing, if you can afford to do it and if you're willing to spend the lives of your people to do it. But if you're unwilling or unable to do what it takes, then hang your head in shame and keep out of it, cause it ain't your fight.