The War on War

It seems like everywhere we turn, we’re hearing about the new war on <insert political catch phrase here>.  What a freakin load.  We have Christians screaming about the War on Christmas, Democrats screaming about the War on Women, and the President himself busily trying his best to encourage a War on Success. 

What about a War on War?  I’m sick and tired of these a-holes pulling out the word “war” to describe everything.  They use that word specifically because of the bad feelings and images it brings forth.  Anyone who is trying to influence you to feel negatively about something could do a lot worse than putting the word “war” in their press release and speeches. 

It goes beyond just the extreme overuse of the word, though.  We are currently engaged in military operations in several countries.  We are in more than one country in Africa, along with Pakistan, Iraq, and Afghanistan.  God only knows were else we are.  Hell, we’re likely to send troops to the Arctic to storm the Castle of the Penguins at any point.  We are the world police, but we don’t enforce the laws of the nations we visit. Instead, we tell them to do it different, and then force them to change.  Perhaps some things do need to change, but how do we have that right?  They are their own nation.  They didn’t ask for our opinion.  They didn’t request assistance.  We simply took it upon ourselves to go let them know they’re doing it wrong.  There are plenty of things we do wrong in our own country, but if Canada sent military forces in to try to straighten us out, we would not cheer.

Yet we cheer when we send in the troops to “fix” other nations.  NO wonder the world thinks we’re arrogant.  We are!

The word “war” is becoming the catch phrase of a generation.  There’s a war on everything.  Around every corner.  We’re bringing Democracy to nations that don’t want it and didn’t ask.  We bring Political Correctness to the masses for fear we might insult someone, anyone.  We overthrow legitimate elected rulers to put in power people who will be more receptive to what we would like to see happen.  We are in a perpetual state of war, at home and abroad, at an ever increasing cost in economic, social, and political terms, not to mention the number of lives spent in military missions that were nothing more than unnecessary invasions of sovereign nations.  People are dying for our government to play “Simon Says” all across the globe. 

Enough is enough.  Bring the men and women of our armed forces home, end military aggression against any and all nations, and stop spending money that my great, great, great grandchildren haven’t earned yet.  You cannot fix what you don’t understand, and looking at our own nation, particularly the economy, it’s very clear we don’t know what the hell we’re doing, either.