Protesting Wars, and Opposing the World

DURING THE VIET NAM WAR, I was just a kid. But about the time that the big Viet Cong-North Vietnamese offensive in early January, 1968 was successfully turned back, I began to have my doubts. The Tet offensive was a failure...or was it? How many times could they do the same thing, over and over again? Even as a soon-to-be thirteen year old this much was clear to me; the United Stes would never win the Viet Nam ware unless its military walked into Hanoi and occupied it. If I had it all to do over again, I would not let my youth stop me from openly complaining about it, to hell with my conservative patriotic parents, and the devil take the hindmost. (that's easy to say now,aint it...) In 1990, when President Bush told Saddan Hussein that the U.S. would never interfere or meddle in inter-Arab matters, then did, I finally got my big chance to actually protest a war: flag, sign, march, the whole kit 'n kaboodle. It was exhilarating. That's where my war protesting memory comes to an end. Since 1990, the United States has been involved in so many wars that I simply haven't the time to protest further, and apparently neither does anyone else. "The world advances only because of those who oppose it" said Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a smart dude with whom we should all acquaint ourselves . The war protestors are the greatest of all patriots, because they care enough to at least attempt to keep the fatherland far away from suicidal fool's errands. President Barack Hussein Obama has thus far deported two million Mexicans, tried hard to drop bombs on Syria, as if that shambles of a nation needed any more bombs dropped upon it, and has failed to show and sign that the U.S.A. intends to ever reduce its own nuclear arsenal or military might. Incidently, if the United States had abided by all the nuclear disarmament treateis it has negotiated and signed, it would currently have no nuclear weapons, rather than the many thousand it actually has. As Casey Stengal said "you cold look it up." Without opposition, the world never makes any progress.