I know, I know - seemed sorta high to me too. But Jesus called us sheep for a reason: the inability to go beyond one dimensional thinking. When asked what the most pressing problem we have today in America, 3% wild-eyed, out-of-touch-with-reality radicals said the war in Afghanistan. And who knows, those were probably Fox News Junkies in permanent fear mode, all terrorism/all the time.
So how does one control a sheep? (nevermind there's no actual benefit to it). Simple, one cracks the foundation to his home. He can't see that crack (without investigating) but he can see the resulting cracks it creates in the walls. But every time the sheep patches his wall you just shift his foundation in another direction, new cracks form and so on and so on. You'll be giggling your ass off as the wife yells at her husband for doing a lousy job of fixing things while he lambastes the government for not providing better plaster. People is funny!
At first, you're sorta scared, asking yourself: "Won't they catch on? Won't they kill me when they find out?" But they never do! And you get bolder and bolder in shifting the foundation until you jettison all regard for reality. You knock on the sheep's front door telling him you've come to care of "Those darn, crappy walls!" Husband and wife sheep gratefully acknowledge your "helping" as you take a fire ax and chop the crap out of the house. Then you wipe your hands in alleged accomplishment declaring, "That will keep you safe! Mission accomplished!" The sheep give a standing ovation.
Three percent. Is it really that high?
Not surprisingly, Americans claim jobs and the economy as the number one priority. But somehow there's a disconnect between our massive war budget and our lack of money and rising deficits. But even if we could afford this war it's still the one driving factor of our current self-destruction: lack of concern for human life. The same madness that feeds our greed cracks the foundation of our present and future. We must first remove the fog from our eyes if we are to see our way out of this mess or we are condemned to continue making one blind tragic decision after another.
Obama has been the perfect front man for the war:
When an ABC News/Washington Post poll released in early September directly asked how important a number of issues would be in deciding how to vote for Congress in November, the economy, health care and the budget deficit were all rated as very important or the single most important issue more often than the war was. In contrast, in the period leading up to the 2006 midterm elections, the war in Iraq and concerns about terrorism trumped all other issues in Times/CBS News national polls. Amid broad dissatisfaction with the war in Iraq that year, American voters ushered in a new Democratic majority in Congress.
It's obvious when an anti-Christ is waging a war as to the evil of it, but Obama has soothed the left into submission, putting them to sleep with poppy fields of a never-to-be promised peace ("I want to get out but just can't!") and praising the illusion we are killing the bad guys. We are the bad guys over there. His siren song of pretty predator drones and reluctant collateral damage leaves only the "unreasonable" as protesters. Well, you're goddam right I'm unreasonable when it come to senseless mass murder!
A faceless thing, an evil thing.
Lack of focus should not be confused with support for the war. On the contrary: Americans’ assessments of the war are grim. A majority in the September Times/CBS News poll said the United States should not be involved in Afghanistan now, up 15 percentage points since December. And most said the war was going badly, down from its peak but well above the reading in the early years of the war, when broad majorities said it was going well.
That's like saying, "Yes, I don't support having this cancer but the real problem is I don't feel good." Well, trust me, pal, you're certainly enacting a permanent solution for your disease by ignoring it: six feet underground. Americans are angry, but they are angry like someone who gets the bill after running up his credit card. What exactly are we expecting? Good times? There's no contrition, just "Get me out of this mess!" But no one wants to see if we need a new foundation, that's not even part of the discussion. Only bad people have to change, good thing we're the good guys!
It's true the world is a dangerous place and there are those bent on killing us regardless, but we're all going to die anyway. The choice remains: we can die doing the right thing or the wrong thing. It's sheer folly to believe we can control the world and yet that's our agenda and stated goal ("Can't let the nukes fall in the wrong hands!"). Instead of maintaining our beacon of light we are extinguishing it in the name of freedom and self-preservation. This I can tell you: if you don't see the reason to leave Afghanistan now you never will until it's too late.
As we continue down this path with no one standing for peace, that leaves us in our minds with the only seeming solution of increasing war as bombing operations for Iran commence. War is a burden and there's no such thing as a good one. Our blind faith in the idea it's keeping us safe is hopelessly naive. The so-called terrorists can't kill us, only we can do that. If we start doing the right thing it will snowball us in the other direction. Admitting a mistake won't kill us, but not admitting it certainly will:
Until the unemployment rate begins to fall dramatically, most Americans seem to feel that they cannot afford to focus on the war. “Jobs are the prevailing issue for everyone right now — we need to focus on jobs,” said one poll respondent, Michael Santalucia, a 47-year-old Democrat from Beavercreek, Ohio. “I don’t know how much we can do about Afghanistan right now, but we can do something about jobs here.”
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