What is escalation? Should we escalate the fight in Iraq? Pin some of it on Iran? Hootenanny thinks that we're overlooking the boys we're asking to handle this shit. Hootenanny thinks we have two basic options and that neither is good.
Option 1. Provide the boys with the support and weaponry to get them home alive and unharmed.
Option 2. Get the boys home now, alive and unharmed.
Even the most high-school uneducated cowboy or indian knows that fresh water and family is more important than oil. Hoss Cartwright held things together when his little brother went on to fetch water for the right with Little House On The Prairie.
You might not understand this rant. We don't expect you will.
Let me put it this way.
When I was a little kid a war broke out between me and my best friend who lived on the other side of the road.
There was one battle. A fistfight in the garage that I lost and retreated from.
We went into stalemate.
We didn't speak.
Though we still lived a few feet from each other.
We were 12, but acting like old men.
Like politicians and world leaders. Prideful. Arrogant.
For years wasting every opportunity to be the friends we were before.
We're darned if we do,
But I'm afraid we're damned if we don't
Let's just bring our boys home
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