My generation grew up with the cold war scaring hell out of us. It lasted over 40 years. We had 10 years of peace. We are now 10 years into this war. We can't end it ourselves. They have to give up or die. We have to keep fighting it until it is over. It's unfortunate. It's sad. But it's reality. We can't afford to get war weary.
Whether or not it was right to go into Iraq, we all have our opinions. We should know the whole truth about that eventually, hopefully, with historical analysis. But we lived Vietnam, and Korea before that. When we had the draft. This war makes 1,000% more sense. Even though it was only 19 hijackers and what, maybe $500k spent to make 9/11 happen. Incredibly unfathomable.
But now it's time to start paying for it. It's time for everyone to share some of the sacrifice being made by our heroes fighting the war, and gone, and the sacrifice of the first responders who died or are now fighting off cancers from the dust of that day and the weeks after. Even if that means paying a little more tax or giving up some unneeded or unwarranted government largess to get our house back in order. That's the least we can do.
Finally, it behooves us to increase our efforts to produce alternative fuels, EV's and other resources like strategic/rare earth minerals/metals ourselves. Consider if the world actually does face peak oil production in the near future. I see facts on it everyday which you've been reading here. It won't be happy camping.
And the Goodyear blimp just flew by out my window. Kid you not. (Airshow in town).
Happy trails, pards.
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