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PoliticoDadio - We are all gon'a die - hey, is Favre suited up?
This entry was posted on 8/13/2008 2:22 PM and is filed under PoliticoDadio, The world has gone insane, Cold War esk.
When one sits in a tidy Television studio in New York, Atlanta, or Washington with minions dusting your face with make-up, it must be easy to concoct bull...t about how the world operates. I have been caught up in the mantra paradigm (like many it would appear) that one should not mention that the remaining languishing "Super Powers" from the old "Cold War" era still have the ability to fry the world with nukes - but of course, we are not suppose to talk about it.
In the Suez Canal Crisis in '56 the Russians took on Hungary. During Tet in our Viet Nam era those same Russians stomped on Czechoslovakia with tanks. During our Iranian embassy hostage crisis they invaded Afghanistan. Now they invade their old "State" of Georgia during the most controversial Olympics in E-Generation memory. "Ahh, dude I don't get it," you say. Then you will be just fine having your silhouette being burnt into a building wall at one million degrees on State Street, in Anytown, USA - if the neo-cold-war is defrosted and things get ugly.
The current power brokers in the U.S. suggest, "This is the 21st Century and invad'n another country just ain't right." Well now, we've got a bucket load of street creds (Iraq) ain't we?
I perused the headlines on CNN, MSNBC, FOX, and, ABC. Low and behold, it is business as usual. Nonsense times "2" monopolizes the headlines - celebs in jail, love children, cheating politicians...
The country of Georgia says, 'Hey, we sent 2000 troops to the 'Coalition of the Willing' for your Iraq thing, Mr. George!" Oops, George Bush, now what? So Ol' Bush is send'n humanitarian aid to Georgia via our Air Force as them damn Ruskies invade. Ahh, what if one of those planes gets shot down? We ain't suppose to talk about that, damn you Bob!.
Just a thought. While we all bask in Favre and that - "Swimming Dude," - we could be on the brink of a quasi-World War III. But if it happens, I am confident most of us will be blind to it anyway - like a child stepping on a twenty-five year old rusty land mine from some past war many of we good citizens missed as well.
Maybe then...see you in the after life, banal comrades.
Wisconsin military service person of the week
Private First Class Ryan M. Jerabek, 18, of Hobart was killed in Ramadi, Iraq on Tuesday, April 6, 2004. Hobart is a small village just west of Green Bay. Jerabek was in the 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force. He was killed in what has been described as a long firefight against insurgents. He had been in Iraq less than a month. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Jerabek enlisted in the delayed entry program for the Marine Corps in his junior year in high school. He did his boot camp in San Diego in July, 2003. Ryan is survived by his mother and father Rita and Ken Jerabek. The Journal Sentinel also mentioned his dad Ken Jerabek served in the Army during Vietnam. Private First Class Ryan M. Jerabek was the Fifteenth Wisconsin service member to die in Iraq.
As of this blog entry's posting date:
86,606 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
8,530 Iraqi Security Forces have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
4,141 Americans have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
567 Americans have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
314 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
340 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
30,509 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
2,330 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
91 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
11 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
130 journalists (several nationalities) have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
15 journalists (various nationalities) have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
Soldier of the week, military casualty, and journalist casualty information sources: Committee to Protect Journalists; cnn.com; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; washingtonpost.com; thehighground.org; Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs; iraqbodycount.org; and, icasualties.org.
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