LET’S PLAN A WAR, OK?

(Mahboob A. Khawaja, Camillo “Mac” Biac)

(J.A.S. Grenville, Frazer Chronicle)

 

Let me see, I guess the first thing to do when planning a war is to create a list of things that will be needed, kind of like a grocery list. Huh I never thought of planning a war is like going to my favorite store and picking out items that would be needed for different recipes to fill out a menu for the week.

 

Maybe that’s what Don Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and the rest of the Bush bad boys did on the run-up to the Iraqi and Afghanistan war’s, they just never figured that the resistance would be so fierce, I mean one of the Bush bad boys did say that Americans would be “treated as benevolent Human Rights’ Protectors, and Americans’ would be showered with flowers…..AND THAT THE WAR WOULD ONLY COST $50 BILLION AND BE OVER IN A YEAR OR LESS!

 

Needless to say, no matter who plans a war, either the good guys or the bad, do not, I repeat, do not use whatever plan is was that the Bush bad boys created and followed, unless you want wars that seem to never end.

 

“War is not accessible through understanding, rationally, intellectually, by watching a film or by reading a book. To know war, you have to experience it, live it, feel it in your gut the anxiety, fear, frustration, boredom, hopelessness, despair, anger, rage, etcetera. In truth, warriors exist in a world totally incomprehensible to those who have never had the misfortune of experiencing the horrors of the battlefield.” Professor Camillo “Mac” Bica.

 

Wars are planned and executed by sadistic and cruel minds, characters which cultivate fear and hatred, and certainly not rational people exercising human intellect, foresight, dignity and accountability in global affairs. Moreover war mongers are best described as human beings equipped with monstrous egos, who are pursuing their favorite perversions.

 

Now after all the hub-bub about the invasion of Afghanistan almost 12 years ago, moral and revenge not-withstanding, intellectual bankruptcy would be the major culprit. If you will recall, President George W. Bush posted a 48 hour ultimatum to the then Taliban-led government of Afghanistan to hand-over Osama bin Laden, the accused master mind of the September 11 attacks on the United States.

 

The Taliban-lead Afghan Government asked for proof of the accusations, America had none except theories and frustrated word. American troops swung hurriedly into action, and with support by the United Kingdom, and other hired nations landed in Afghanistan to occupy the land as well as the people of the country.

 

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was instantly transformed to take up a new role but ill-defined war against Afghanistan. Almost like the swipe of a pen across a war document, President Bush insured thousands upon thousands of civilians would die, and more than 6,000 U.S. Military would perish.

 

Although President Obama pulled American troops out of Iraq, it is still a piss-hole for violence every single day of the year. And Afghanistan, people across the board of the war mongering spectrum would agree on at least one issue…..the war on terror, Oops…. (People aren’t supposed to use the word terror), the planning that went into both the Iraqi and Afghani wars was lax on troop strength, supply lines, body and vehicle armament and in the long run, approval from the U.S. taxpayer.

 

DON’T WORRY, THERE’S STILL HOT SPOTS WHERE WE CAN PLAN WARS

I am happy to state that the world still posses several hot spots where the art of war can continue to be used as a practice field where we can hone are war-making capabilities, and grade out at a much higher rate.

 

There was the Schlieffen Plan, devised by Count Alfred von Schlieffena German General in the early 20^th century. There is a stoic picture of the Count in full regalia military attire complete with his medals dangling from his jacket top.

 

The Schlieffen Plan was the general staff’s early 20^th century overall strategic plan for victory in a possible future war in which the German Empire might find itself fighting on two fronts: France to the west and Russia to the east. World War 1 later became such a war, with both a Western and an Eastern Front.

 

For General Alfred von Schlieffen, the plan that he had devised, which was to avoid a war on two fronts by concentrating troops in the West and quickly defeating the French, and then, if necessary, rushing troops by rail to the East to face Russia before they had time to mobilize fully did not take place during the Counts military career…..he retired, but all of his planning, with a few modifications by Helmuth von Moltke did achieve a modicum of success…..but of course Germany lost the war.

 

I must mention the fact that the Schlieffen Plan was more than 30 years in the making, and took into account many military encounters from General Von Schlieffern’s career. The Schlieffen war plan overestimated the speed of the German troops, and underestimated the speed of the Russians.

 

The Iraq war could possibly be the most under-planned war in the history of war mongering by the United States military. Between President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, Iraqi bankers, Ahmed Chalabi, and Paul Wolfowitz, and a sprinkling of British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, the miss-management of the Iraqi mess.

 

AND NOW WE HAVE THE AFGHAN QUESTION

The same people that initiated the Iraqi war did the same with Afghanistan, only with much less planning, even though the direct ties between the United States, September 11, 2001 were much stronger. The war in Afghanistan, Enduring Freedom commenced on October 7, 2001 and of course continues to this day, coming up on 12 years.

 

Nobody in the wildest of wet dreams could have envisioned a war in Afghanistan with a raggedy assed opponent like the loosely organized and poorly equipped terrorists…..who today aren’t even addressed as terrorists.

 

And now we have the military as well as political question of how gracefully to bow out of the country and still keep our dignity…..a truly impossible task. It would be like the wimpiest kid on the block, I mean the wimpiest of kids, one that could sell a picture of himself to a marketing company who in turn would print the kids face on a poster proclaiming him as a poster child for the wimpiest kid on the block.

 

This wimpy kid beating the biggest baddest bully and red-neck on the block and in fact kicked the bully out of the neighborhood. That is what the United States is up against, people in high places, on the block understand the dilemma, but has no idea what to do.

 

 

Well thankfully I have an easy solution; these Islamist types hate being called towel heads, when actually their choice for a “lid” is actually a sheet, that’s right a small folded sheet material that suffices as a hat. My solution…..call these people “little sheet heads,” just like that the problem is solved and we can bring our troops home.

 

Negotiations would be much easier; after all, many in the Islamist world call Americans Infidels, a completely unflattering term which can mean anything from an unbeliever, to one that has no religion, or a person who rejects or doubts a particular doctrine, principle or system!

 

So…..the little sheet heads, and the unbelieving, heathen-infidels can sit down at the bargaining table and get on with the process of peace  between two ideologies, cause after all, it’s really what’s at the core of this disagreement…..(oh yeah, and a foot-print and the oil of the Middle East). Hum… the foot-print and oil issues might be way too big for there ever to be a solution for peace.

 

Sorry, I can’t think of everything, guess the little sheet heads and the infidels are on their own in this peace effort!

 

HAVE A NICE DAY!