Haven’t
put up a political rant for awhile. If you are easily offended, just move on.
Here
we go again, getting involved in the internal affairs of another country, Venezuela.
This
isn’t a defense of the wretched despotic socialists currently ruining the lives
of their citizens.
It
is for the citizens of Venezuela, or Iran, or China, or any other country whose
values we don’t share to make changes. How many lives of our military do we continue to spend
in stupid interventions? How much treasure do we give to the military
industrial racketeers? Do we ever learn?
The
cost of the Vietnam debacle was such we could have given every Vietnamese
$1,000,000 some folks estimate. What cost was the 50,000+ American citizens who
died?
I
know many of the arguments about keeping shit away from our borders by
influencing (read, active intervention) the affairs of those who may, or may
not, be our enemies. We have every right to defend our borders. As a nation, we’ve
let the racketeers make intervention the norm. Not just acceptable, but
praiseworthy. Fuck that! We need to mind our own business. Can’t solve our own
problems? Whee, create a crisis, or some noble endeavor, to keep the deplorables
distracted.
YMMV
