Been trying to get back into a regular posting groove. Still can’t quite get there. For a whole host of reasons.
Number 1-My daughter is getting married this weekend. So I will be gone the entire weekend and will probably not be posting at all. Maybe, depending on how the wedding / reception/ having to see my ex-wife and her family for the first time in many years goes. If my nerves survive that OK-maybe I will have the where with all to get to the keyboard. More probably, I will get through the wedding and the reception and then come back to the room and let a bottle of wine whirl me down to oblivion.
However on the plus side-I’ve getting to see my daughter again and I get to see her get married. Everything else is just something to deal with.
My father and sister will be there too-so its going to be a pretty full weekend. The S.O. gets to meet them all. This ought to be just ducky!
Reason #2- After being overseas last week, I’m more than a little depressed being back here in Shopping Mall again. E@L and Indy fully understand why. ( More can be revealed later perhaps). Nonetheless-having to go back to the hum drum tedious existence that is life in suburban America is dragging my spirits down. It doesn’t help that the project we are on right now is incredibly busy.
Reason #3: I just don’t know what to make of the news right now. Afghanistan? I’m not sure I understand how 40,000 more troops gets us any closer to a non-existent "victory". Two questions remain unanswered as Mr Kristol and his friends bag the drum for war without end. 1) When the do the Afghans get to accept a chunk of the blame for their inability to get their act together? and 2) How do we leave? McChrystal does not seem very adept at answering those two questions.
Our mission in Afghanistan supposedly has something to do with countering international terrorism. McChrystal confesses he sees no sign of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. National Security Adviser James Jones says al-Qaeda now has fewer than 100 fighters according to the “maximum estimate.” Afghanistan was f*cked up for the last hundred years and its going to stay screwed up for some time to come. Why do we have to stick around and watch?
I do realize that politically-there is no way we can leave, but I’m in agreement with Mr. Will. We really ought to be looking whatever option gets us out of central Asia and the sooner the better.
Health care? What’s to say? The politics of obstructionism seem to be working. I really don’t know what to make of that either. Except what it says about the supposed compassion of a significant portion of America is not very good.
To write persuasively there has to be passion for the subjects. I have none. What passion I had has been well and suitably drained by seeing what should have been versus what is.
Time for a beer! During which I will close my eyes, draw a cold frosty drink from the bottle-and imagine in my brain the view that should be:
Every man has his dream of paradise!