Whiners and Rants

When you're a contractor working in a foreign country, it is impossible to come home without the tug to stay. I hate to say it, but there you fight for your life daily...we live in a war zone after all. There is so many distractions at home. Things that need your immediate care and concern as it was before you left. Once back in the sandbox, it's easier to deal with things. Throw some money at the problem and go back to the day in, day out hum drum that is work, eat, sleep and sometimes run and hide.

I'm on R&R. If I hear one more person question why we're in Afghanistan i may scream. I am a patriot, so here's my rant: I'm in a country that was left in ruins by a war 20 years ago. All the rich and educated left leaving a generation of poor and illiterate to fend for themselves. Enter the saviors called by me "the Talitubbies." They have a thing about how life should be...no schools, men rule, capital punishment and the country stays poor and enslaved all in the name of religion. America suffers a blow- 911. We all remember New York. The US does not do terrorists well, so search and destroy time and into Afghanistan.

The Taliban does not have a country. They could be anywhere and if you want to join them, there is no country to go to find them. It's like fighting a destructive ghost. But few want to join and many are pressed into service. Our withdrawal from Afghanistan effectively gives them a country from which to conquer and to fight us from. When we fought World War II, you could follow every moment on a map. I did it in school and you did too. We knew the enemy. There was a winner and a loser. There will never be that with terrorist. How can you settle a disagreement when one party will not talk. When they believe their actions are justified because a few made the rules.

So one idiot made a decision and we're leaving- OK, enough complaining about the US presence in Afghanistan. Canada bolted last year...imagine that! So many countries there, but it's all about the U.S. And it will be when we're gone too. Only this time we gave them an address. Remember that the next time a plane flies into a skyscraper.

I know this was a very simple explanation. We are the Red, White and Blue, but we like things in black and white. How about this...Do something different today...Thank a soldier for his/her service. The war is not popular, but the men still are!