Hello out there in blog land....This morning Goms got up and started watching some morning TV. There were some ads for the upcoming holidays that make you feel all warm and fuzzy just thinking about how wonderful the holidays are and how fast they are approaching. Then there was the segment where they show the people outside in the crowd and they were waving flags today for Veterans Day. Then the news started and the first segment was about the Presidents' 'War Council'.................EKEEEEE!!!!! Now, this is in no way a political piece. Goms is for everyone believing the way they feel they want. This is just Goms wondering how we seamlessly go from happy thoughts of the approaching holidays to nonchalantly discussing the'progress'of the war so easily. Are we, as a people, so desensitized to killing that we just accept any information or content that is offered to us?
This really goes back to what Goms has said before in other blogs. 'What we resist-persists....'Ever heard of the 'war on crime?'....'the war on poverty?'....the war on aids?'...the 'war on war?"How is that working out boys and girls? Not so well, is it? Goms thinks the administration should form a 'Council on Peace'.....This is not to say that the present administration is the only administration to have had a 'war council'.....they have been around a long time. DUH...about as long as there were wars for our young people to fight. Strangely, this does goes hand in hand with being grateful to all of our service members in the military and all of the past Veterans who have fought for our freedoms. Thank you one and all. But..........Goms thinks it is about time we start thinking of ways to avoid wars and ways to get out of wars.
Goms is from the generation that marched against the war....(er insisted) 'we' (the USA) get out of Viet Nam. I have to give it to my generation for having the insight and wherewith all to say "ENOUGH ALREADY!" Anyone with any intelligence (the US Intelligence Department included) should realize that we are NEVER going to force the people in those far away lands to think the way we do.....So Goms says, let them have their own culture and their own way of thinking how they should live. We have plenty to clean up in our own backyards don't we? Until all the homeless people in our cities and the children of the lower end of the income bracket in our own country have a decent place to live and food to eat, we should just clean up our own act before we tell other lands how to live. Ya' think?????
Well, thanks again Veterans and all of our military. We are proud of you and grateful for your service. Maybe some day, our military will just be used to protect us from intruders(not foreigners who come to us legally) into our own country. Wouldn't that be nice? If anyone is off today for Veterans' Day...........enjoy. Everyone else, still enjoy your day. Hugs & Mush - Gommy
