"YER OUT, NO YER SAFE." (Frazer Chronicle)
In baseball, when an umpire calls you out.....you remain out, flip off your batting helmet and walk towards the dug-out, sit and glower, or collect your ball glove and take your defensive position. It happens millions of times all over America during the summer months. From softball to baseball, from little league to the majors, batters hit the ball and run like hell towards 1st. base. Baseball is a simple game as Hector Dias told me one time, "you hit the ball and run like hell," you know, Hector was right.
Watching the just completed World Series between Texas and the St. Louis team, an Innocent listener would wonder at Hector's statement. Listening to Joe Buck, Tim McCarver, John Smoltz and Ron Darling. and how they talked about the "stress level" of each pitch, whether a particular decision by managers was a good one or not, how the tension of hitters, pitchers and fielders was almost unbearable. "Give me a break."
Both Texas and St. Louis had grown men, playing a child's game, running around on a grass and dirt playing surface in pajamas. One guy hit the ball thrown by a pitcher, and everybody with a fielder's glove on chased the little white ball and tried to make the runner out. The team with more runs and more outs won the game and the World SERIOUS was over.
We now come to a much more serious game that is playing out thousands of miles away, played on sand and rocks, in an inhospitable land, "at least to my way of thinking." The game has lasted for more then 9 years, "are we going into extra innings," and it was a game that the United States could never win. The rules of the game were not dictated by the U.S. rather a bunch of camel jockeys who have made war off and on for the past thousand years or so.
The game, "war" was always fought on foreign soil, the U.S. didn't have any home games scheduled, had no home ball park, and had precious little time to practice. The rules were screwed up, "winning the hearts and minds" rebuild, fix infrastructure, fix water, roads and utilities, pay, pay, pay, offer security, health care and train the people to protect themselves.
The United States were not occupiers, whether.....liberators, U.S. officials threw out that bull crap to anyone who was listening, and the most important people simply weren't listening, Iraqi citizens. Almost from the beginning, many Iraqi's thought that the Americans wanted the countries oil reserves and as the conflict continued, the number swelled to include 75-80% of Iraqi's.
We now are coming to the end, mandated by the Bush administration, the withdrawal date is December 31, it's the date that all troops are to be out of Iraq. Everybody knew that some advisory staff would remain, that the American conciliate in Baghdad would be staffed with several thousand, but that was okay, we'd be out of a war zone that (we) had actually created.
Now are friendly neighborhood Department of War, the Pentagon is planning a Gulf buildup after the Iraq exit. Well dip me in "well water" does that really surprise you? With an "eye" on the threat of belligerent Iran, the Obama administration is seeking to expand military ties with the six nations in the "Gulf Cooperation Council," Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates.
Where do these jokes come up with these names, I mean, "Gulf Cooperation Council," get real and get with the times. A better name, "Attack of the Tanks against the Camels," or "Uncivil War," or "We'll Kick Your Ass council."
We are again looking to occupy a country, "Iran" where we can't win, no way, no how. We need to keep our elongated nose "out of the Middle East, the Middle East is where the predicted "final battles" will take place. I know what I'm talking about, it's written in the Bible, and I saw a television show about the last world battles on N.P.R. "so it has to be true."
To continue in the Middle East with a military force would be a huge mistake, let's get our "boots, buns and guns" out of the Middle East. These people will be just fine, they've been lobbing rocks, sticks, bottles and bombs at one another for years, I for one wish they'd "get a better aim."
In baseball, when an umpire calls you out.....you remain out, flip off your batting helmet and walk towards the dug-out, sit and glower, or collect your ball glove and take your defensive position. It happens millions of times all over America during the summer months. From softball to baseball, from little league to the majors, batters hit the ball and run like hell towards 1st. base. Baseball is a simple game as Hector Dias told me one time, "you hit the ball and run like hell," you know, Hector was right.
Watching the just completed World Series between Texas and the St. Louis team, an Innocent listener would wonder at Hector's statement. Listening to Joe Buck, Tim McCarver, John Smoltz and Ron Darling. and how they talked about the "stress level" of each pitch, whether a particular decision by managers was a good one or not, how the tension of hitters, pitchers and fielders was almost unbearable. "Give me a break."
Both Texas and St. Louis had grown men, playing a child's game, running around on a grass and dirt playing surface in pajamas. One guy hit the ball thrown by a pitcher, and everybody with a fielder's glove on chased the little white ball and tried to make the runner out. The team with more runs and more outs won the game and the World SERIOUS was over.
We now come to a much more serious game that is playing out thousands of miles away, played on sand and rocks, in an inhospitable land, "at least to my way of thinking." The game has lasted for more then 9 years, "are we going into extra innings," and it was a game that the United States could never win. The rules of the game were not dictated by the U.S. rather a bunch of camel jockeys who have made war off and on for the past thousand years or so.
The game, "war" was always fought on foreign soil, the U.S. didn't have any home games scheduled, had no home ball park, and had precious little time to practice. The rules were screwed up, "winning the hearts and minds" rebuild, fix infrastructure, fix water, roads and utilities, pay, pay, pay, offer security, health care and train the people to protect themselves.
The United States were not occupiers, whether.....liberators, U.S. officials threw out that bull crap to anyone who was listening, and the most important people simply weren't listening, Iraqi citizens. Almost from the beginning, many Iraqi's thought that the Americans wanted the countries oil reserves and as the conflict continued, the number swelled to include 75-80% of Iraqi's.
We now are coming to the end, mandated by the Bush administration, the withdrawal date is December 31, it's the date that all troops are to be out of Iraq. Everybody knew that some advisory staff would remain, that the American conciliate in Baghdad would be staffed with several thousand, but that was okay, we'd be out of a war zone that (we) had actually created.
Now are friendly neighborhood Department of War, the Pentagon is planning a Gulf buildup after the Iraq exit. Well dip me in "well water" does that really surprise you? With an "eye" on the threat of belligerent Iran, the Obama administration is seeking to expand military ties with the six nations in the "Gulf Cooperation Council," Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates.
Where do these jokes come up with these names, I mean, "Gulf Cooperation Council," get real and get with the times. A better name, "Attack of the Tanks against the Camels," or "Uncivil War," or "We'll Kick Your Ass council."
We are again looking to occupy a country, "Iran" where we can't win, no way, no how. We need to keep our elongated nose "out of the Middle East, the Middle East is where the predicted "final battles" will take place. I know what I'm talking about, it's written in the Bible, and I saw a television show about the last world battles on N.P.R. "so it has to be true."
To continue in the Middle East with a military force would be a huge mistake, let's get our "boots, buns and guns" out of the Middle East. These people will be just fine, they've been lobbing rocks, sticks, bottles and bombs at one another for years, I for one wish they'd "get a better aim."
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