Ok, I'm just going to come out and say it.....

I love our soldiers for being willing to lay down their lives in the service of their country in the name of what they perceive to be freedom, but dude, I know a con when I see one (unless the con artist in question is wearing a thong, but that's another post) and our post-Desert Storm presence in the Middle East is so manufactured, Nick Cannon would marry it. I mean, there have been some things that could be easily misinterpreted in the past but come the f**k on. At some point, somebody high up looked around and said "We need a new war, but we need one we can keep fighting." After all, war is the only real recession-proof industry there is. And you can ALWAYS come up with a reason to be over there. See, back in the day, a country would start talking sh** and we could just bomb the sh** out of them. I'm won't say any names **cough**Japan**cough**. Nowadays, Al-Queida doesn't have just one evil stronghold like in comic books. In fact, there are many cases where they don't have a concrete base of operations at all. And they're ALL pissed at us. We could just deploy troops whenever we feel like it, have them walk around until someone gets pissed enough to start shooting at them (over there, you don't have to go far) or until we find an actual asshole over there that needs to get shot in the head (Saddam, Osama, etc.). Meanwhile, on the homefront, the rich stay rich and everybody else has to trade sexual favors for gas money. Just something I was thinking about.