I feel cheated, where are the cheers?
by
RichardKanePA | 12.16.2011
The is a lot of editorializing but its time to also cheer coming home from Iraq.
US troops coming home from Iraq, but no collective cheers.
There was a huge celebration as US troops came home from the First and Second World Wars. Unless it involves defeat, almost everywhere this kind of event leads to celebration.
Even in defeat, at the end of World War II, Germans amazed the invading Americans by cheering, It turned out they were in part cheering the US had arrived before the Russians. But partly they were truly cheering that the war was over.
Economic bad news doesn't put one in a cheering mood. But lack of cheering is not good for the heart and blood pressure. Americans seem to be drifting into just ignoring war unless a loved one is personally involved. Let's join the close relatives in a collective cheer of welcome home.
I hope other can help me in suggestions or links to celebration.
Take a moment to watch close relatives celebrate in the following video,
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/10/as-iraq-war-ends-families-across-u-s-welcome-troops-home/?hpt=hp_c2
As we tend to know, there is a dark cloud under the silver lining. Al Qaeda dreams of a totally bankrupt West, and US funded private contractors still in Iraq are expensive. It is possible that bin Laden refrained from a second large Western attack because it would lead to a draft which would be cheaper than a volunteer army would be. Al Qaeda can't stand it that some Muslims are enticed by Western ways. Particularly they like to attack Muslims watching soccer on a giant TV screen. By giving into al Qaeda and giving up our civil liberties that some Muslims want and mistreating Muslims in the US into not longing to stay here, it satisfies al Qaeda enough to look for other targets instead. Which are many indeed, the US media is too myopic to notice or barely report on at all. Off the subject I think there is good news when it comes to the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street.
Never-the-less, if we don't cheer our US troops coming home we are less human than we would otherwise be.
Americans are shocked at all the rape and pillage that goes along with war in other parts of the world. Only one US soldier saving fingers as souvenirs of war shocks us all. What to me should be upsetting is someone in front of a computer screen casually sipping a soda or sucking on a life saver as the joy stick in their hands rains death on the other side of the world.
Some think it was wrong for some Americans to show emotion by cheering bin Laden's death, whether or not this is so, it should be shocking that US troops are coming home to the yawns of many fellow Americans they meet.
Let's cheer, let's not just became part of a computer screen with a joy stick in our hands, not worrying about the millions spend on contractors as long as we are not personally being taxed for it.
All my editorializing and the editorializing of others is getting in the way of cheering. Others seem to be emptily cheering in never-land. We somehow need to do both. The soldiers who were in Iraq need and deserve a collective “welcome home” by more than just personal friends.
RichardKane
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The Villager Wolf Blitzer
Submitted by Rich Gardner on Vie, 12/16/2011 - 3:47pm["Villager" is the lefty term for an Establishment dispenser of conventional wisdom] feels that the situation in Iraq hardly calls for any sort of celebration. he notes a number of concerns.
Of course, on the more positive side, US troops weren't chased to the boats. The US didn't conduct any sort of Dunkirk-type, hurried evacuation.
Are Iraqis at all grateful that the US invaded their country in the first place? Russia Today points that the future is far from clear, but that, of course, the future with continued occupation by American troops wouldn't look much brighter.
Nah, I don't see much cause for celebration, but neither do I see it as a crushing defeat.
What about what others do like Vietnam ousting Pol Pot
Submitted by RichardKanePA on Dom, 12/18/2011 - 2:41amVietnam went into Cambodia to oust the bloody Pol Pot Kramer Rough dictatorship like the US did Saddam, in Iraq. But then US politicians decided to nation build and things went down hill from there. Fortunately we weren’t fleeing from helicopters. Or in the middle of an economic melt down similar to Greece. Fortunately al Qaeda didn't suicide bomb though they might be planning something to show off December 26 or 27 but that won't have the same effect now that President Obama already announced that we withdrew.
I want to celebrate the good news and at the same time warn against new attempts to nation build if this is possible,
readersupportednews.org/pm-section/23-23/8960-i-long-for-a-iraq-war-coming-home-celebration
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