Always Fun; Here We Go Again

THE STUPID HEADLINE says "amid growing tensions, obama and putin to meet". OK, fine. Sure.
Whether they intend to meet in person or on the phone i do not know, and is of no consequence. Hell, chances are, if they talk on the phone, their conversation will be monitored by the FBI, CIA, NSA, and whoever the hell else does all that crap for the corporate empire, aka america. What goes around comes around, barrack hussein....

The rising tensions have to do with the fact that the united states now says it will send help, real help, to the syrian rebels, while putin and the russians are staunchly allied with assad, and the existing syrian government. So, here we go again. Another freaking viet nam. Global superpowers supporting opposing sides of a civil war, for whatever phony trumped up reasons. 

First, we'll send  M16s and ammo, then, a lil air cover, then, who knows what else; whatever our corporate masters can trick us into paying for, correct? How many times must a good baby booming american citizen go through this in a single lifetime! If only obama were old enough to remember, i mean really remember, the horror that was nam..

this whole business of "we caught the syrian government using chemical weapons against the rebels, which means they done crossed the line in the sand, which means that we, america the magnanimous, must now enter the fray....well, frankly, it smells like a rat, a big 'un.

remember the maine? we claimed the spanish sank her in 1898, and declared war on spain; in truth, the boiler exploded due to incompetence.  And, then too, in 1846 we claimed that the mexicans were inviading america, so, we invaded mexico.

then, of course, was the famous gulf of tonkin, 1964, in which the U.S. of by god america claimed that the north vietnamese navy was attacking, full out, the american peace keeping armada off the shores of nam, which gave LBJ (see Johnson, lyndon, prez, USA) the excuse he wanted for giving the military industrial complex the war, or rather "police action" they wanted so badly.

and to think, back in 1939, when hitler dressed up a few germans to look like polish infantry, then crossed into poland, then back into germany, and hitler invaded poland in defense of germany, we acted like it was such a terrible thing to do. Hell, adolph was merely borrowing a page or two from the standard american playbook...

Who knows? maybe we can string this one out long enough to have one of our patented vituperative american national arguments about it, and half of us can get out in the streets with "war no more" placards, left over from viet nam, and iraq,a bit tattered but still legible, while the other, conservative half sit at home, munching buffalo wings, and bitching about "those damned peace luvin' hippies"...that's always fun...