“Come Monday…” is a weekly series that will
involve a review of (or commentary about) websites, movies, documentaries,
television shows, sports, music, and whatever else may tickle my fancy at the
time. Be assured that these reviews will
be generally positive, as in accordance to the Jimmy Buffett song “Come
Monday.” This is subject to change,
however. In fact, I would be most
derelict in my duties to neglect going on a rant every once in a while. For rants promote change, and change can be
good—right? Therefore, since good is
generally considered as being a positive force in 99.3% of the parallel
universes that I am aware of, even a rant could be considered as being
something positive, and a genuine hissy-fit would be even better (so I’m told).
First of all,
please let me make it as abundantly clear as possible that this is not meant as
an attack upon our military—certainly not the men and women who actually served
in Iraq and Afghanistan. For they did (which many are still doing) what they were ordered to do, and for the most part, they did
it honorably.
No, this is meant
as an attack upon our stupid leaders in Washington, D.C., and with plans being
made to send advisers back into Iraq, I am trying real hard to be diplomatic in
my criticism. You see, I am not calling
our leaders stupid in the way you probably think. I am calling them stupid in a spiritual-sense,
which is really not all that different from calling them stupid in a natural-sense
since all intelligence is actually in the hands of our Heavenly Father, but
that is a discussion for another day, I suppose.
Okay, for the
benefit of those who do not get it, we (as in all of mankind) are not nearly as
free to do as we will in this world as what most would like to believe. For how we see and react to things is actually
completely in our Heavenly Father’s hands—even if He just allows us to so as we
will.
The thing is,
however, that our Heavenly Father will often give us a clue (even to those who
do not want to believe that He even exists) when we are about to make an error
in judgment, with it all depending upon what He wants to accomplish in a given
situation determining whether He makes it abundantly clear to someone that they
are about to really mess up or keeps them in the dark until the damage is done. With it being well-documented (even in a
natural-sense) that the politics of Iraq has been based upon religious
ideologies for centuries, how much more of a clue does He have to give President
Obama that mere military might is not going to solve the problem? Hence, we have a really [stupid] president in
office.
In all fairness,
[W.] was not any sharper. For he went in
there and kicked over a fire anthill, which destabilized the entire region.
No, I am not
suggesting that [Hussein] should have been left alone. Neither am I suggesting that the current
threat from [ISIS] should be ignored. Nonetheless,
there is a much better way to go than the road we have taken and are about to
travel back down again.
ISIS is
[Sunni]. Therefore, the Saudis, who are
mostly Sunni and have the most to lose by an all-out war between ISIS and
[Shias] backed by Iran, should be asked to temporarily take over management of
Iraq after we take some fire out of the ISIS [jihad], which has been stoked by
the current Shia president of Iraq’s gross mistreatment of Sunnis. For I believe that the Saudis would deal
fairly with both the Sunnis and Shias in Iraq, which should settle things down
quite nicely. If the Saudis refuse to
get directly involved, we should leave Iraq be.
No, that would not
be good news for the European economies much more dependent upon middle-eastern
oil supplies than we are these days. So,
let them take the lead, with us playing a strictly supporting role. For that is what good allies should do—right?
Alas, Iraq looks
like a no-win situation from our own ground-based points of view, but it is
really not. Ah, but who is so blind as
the one who does not want to see?
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