For What?

The United States Military entered the country of Afganistan in October of the year 2001. Their mission was to kill Osama Bin Laden and all of those responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Bin Laden was only in Afganistan for a short while, and because of terrible, awful, moronic, military and political bungling he spent all the rest of his time in Pakistan. What the fuck have we been doing? Why have we let this go for so long with no clear answers as to anything? I know that it is offical that we are in talks with the Taliban, which is like Harry S. Truman doing some back dealing with Hitler to end aggressions in Europe. What the fuck? The Taliban are a bunch of assholes beyond what should be humanly possible and we are sitting down with the jerks to hammer out some deal? What in the sam hell have we been doing and for how much longer we will allow ourselves to do it? Every time I see the Secretary Defense's face, I can see a man heart broken at the futility of our foriegn excursions. He knows what every American should know, but we don't. We have failed to recognize the symbols of history set before us that could truly set us free. We have become the war mongers of the modern age, and yet our bombs and bullets feed no one who might be hungry tonight. And of the nearly seven thousand men and women who have died in these wars and the thousands upon thousands, upon thousands who have lost a part of themselves, either literally or figuratively, for them, justice seems waiting in the sky. I would have never dreamed in a million years that I could be so disappointed in my country. Every single damn one of us bares the full responsibility of a whole lot of blood on the ground and we can't get enough of a little girl's murder trial. That's what we want to see, that is what we are defending. It's not justice. Just like in that little girl's trial, it is a spectacle. I am so surprised that more vets haven't gone absolutely ape shit over what has happened here and what is still happening. Go to a VA hospital anywhere in the United States of America and look at the faces on the people walking around. Don't look at the beautiful structures, or the mammoth buildings, or the pretty manicured lawn, look at the faces! The big ass sign that welcomes you to the VA hospital I attend says "The price of freedom is visible here" and I believe that never have truer words been written. I tell you the truth, the united States is going to get what she has coming to her. What has been allowed to transpire under our watch, shall cost us in ways we can never ponder, or predict, or prepare for. Good and evil are as real as nitrogen and oxygen and the balance is not tipped in our favor. What we have done with our war fighters is wrong and has been wrong from the very beginning. War is sum of what evil we know and we use all the evil we know to wage it. The America I loved and believed in was an America that went to war with the sole intention of ending war. We as always, unfortunately, have made war a business venture in a world of exploding stocks. It is not about an epic struggle between the forces of darkness and light, it is an epic struggle between the forces of revenues and bottom lines. What a shame it is if we are the best humanity has had to offer up to this point. It is a damn bigger shame that it would ever come to me writting something like that. America, right now, you can kiss my ass, we ain't worth a rat's ass in a cheese factory. Oh yea, for what? For not one damn thing, that's what.