Making Short Wars Long

AWAITING, with eager anticipation, the appearance of the self proclaimed stable genius on national television to announce, evidently for dramatic effect, that the war against the incarnation of evil is beginning at precisely this moment, 9PM EST, the moment of Trump's initial utterances,the thought occurred to me that it might not be the best idea to inform the world, and the enemy of choice, the enemy of the month, in advance. Isn't surprise supposed to be a vital element in all offensive military actions? But, as they say, what do I know? It seems a little self defeating to alert the enemy as to time and place, almost like two medieval European armies, using shields, spears, body armor, and bows and arrow, facing off at an agreed up location, like, say, Normandy or Flanders. Not to to worry, said stable genius has everything under control, or so we are led to believe by the ministry of propaganda, aka Karoline Leavitt. Aside from the urge I feel to slap the holy shit out of her sweet, teeny bopper fat litle face, I reflect that all wars last longer than those who start them anticipate, and none of them go as smoothly as planned. Also,the bloodshed inevitably, in all wars, greatly exceeds all expectations and predictions. In the American Civil War, and again in both world wars, all involved combatants smugly assumed that it would all be over within mere weeks, all the boys would come marching home healthy and triumphant, and all would be well with the world. Nobody who ever said or believed that was right. And yet, we will be told all these lies again, as these lies have been told since ancient times, only this time, the lie will come from the prince of prevarication, a liar to end all liars. The enemy is always more formidable than anticipated, the casualties much higher than anticipated, the war bloodier and less glorious. The stable genius won't, however, be able to drag out his diversionary war to preserve liberty and virtue,to end all things Epstein or to at least make us forget all about it long enough to constitute an adequate diversion, At the end of the day, as we like to say, no matter how much bloodier and difficult our war of the month turns out to be, Epstein will still be in the background, looming, lurking. Normally, I dont listen to or watch Trump's speeches. A little bad grammar among a vast profusion of lies from a person who occupies an office which is supposed to be occupied by a person of morals and intellect goes a long way with me in terms of revulsion; I have never yet made it all the way through a Trump speech, even his first inaugural speech, which mercifully lasted about fifteen minutes. Like everything else he utters,Trump's formal speeches are invariably simplistic, banal, and a pack of lies to boot. Predictably, Don the Con will attempt to justify American aggression as all American aggression is justified; it is our sacred obligation to fight for freedom and liberty,and to offer the many benefits of American global hegemony to a lost world desperately seeking enlightened, aka American leadership, which is predicated entirely upon American military and economic might, and not American morality. American virtue and morality, such as they are, have nothing to do with it, and never have, in any war. As Gore Vidal used to point out, quite accurately, the United States of America is a sham, a system of distinct class distinctions in a country purporting to be egalitarian. Government of the wealthy,by the wealthy, and for the wealthy elite upper two percent lily white. Most amazing of all is that about one half of our nation of sycophantic sheep will hang on every grammatically incorrrect word, and will buy, dirt cheap, every damnable lie.