Living In Denial In the United States of Amnesia

IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMNESIA, we the people are prone to denial of reality, and tend to much prefer escapism, even if only into the vicarious life of some strangers down the street. The United States of Kardashia. Why don't we take this opportunity to all catch a clue; note, the self proclaimed Islamic State, as we like to call it, is here to stay. Or rather, there to stay - there being in Iraq and Syria. American airstrikes are not going to magically kill off the Islamic State. There is no force on Earth with enough cahonies to eliminate it. If there is, who? The United Nations? NATO? Like, I am so totally sure. We Americans deny our present as well as we deny our past; largely, by simply not caring. It is amazing how many of us have seemingly bought into this nonsense about terrorists targeting the United States only because they are resentful and jealous of our glorious free market prosperity and Christian piety. Left out of the chain of events is the annoying fact that the United states tricked Saddam Hussein into invading Kuwait twenty five years ago, then used the Kuwaiti cause as a pretext to plant a firm military foot in the oiliest region in the world. And there our foot remains, stuck deep in the mud, unable to either get deeper in or extricate itself. Ironic, that in the years since, so much oil has been discovered everywhere else, particularly under American soil, and fracking is so effective in extracting it, that military control of the Middle East simply isn't as important, oil wise, as it was in 1990.