A war on three fronts… I haven't seen that since just before the Nazis got wiped out.

The concept of the “preemptive strike” fills me with dread and reminds me of the reason why.  When I was a little younger, I was still in primary school, I think I was around 10 years old, I became the target of a school bully who liked nothing more than pushing me around, calling me names and making everyone else laugh at me.  The whole charade started to get old so I talked to the one man who can help in situations such as these…  My dad.  He talked me through what I should do in order to not only get this bully to stop, but also ensuring no other bullies picked up where he left off…  According to my dad I should walk straight up to this bully in the playground before class, and in front of as many people as possible punch him right in the face.

It is a great idea, and to someone with no ability of forward thinking it would seem like the most obvious and fool proof plan.  It isn’t.  I walked straight up to him like my dad said, and I swung my arm at him, fist clenched, the whole thing seemed to be going in slow motion.  Then I hit him.  For ten seconds I was Mike Tyson, top of the world…  The new hard-man on the block.  What my dear father had neglected to inform me was that if it turned out I wasn’t a heavyweight champion in the making and didn’t manage to knock the bully out with this punch…  It would probably just make him mad.  As you will probably have guessed I didn’t knock him out, in fact my punch was an embarrassment which just made him mad and he administered what I still class as the third or fourth worse beating I have ever received.

It did teach me something valuable though, the bully hadn’t actually ever punched or kicked me.  The only reason he did eventually punch and kick me was because I punched him in front of a crowd of people.  Had I refrained from this “preemptive strike” I would probably have just had to deal with a couple more years of being made fun of, which I understand now anyway…  I was quite fat but still enjoyed running around trying to play sports, I would laugh too.

This is one of the reasons I was shocked to read of the plans for an American “preemptive strike” on Yemen for possibly training a guy who didn’t blow up a plane.  The many things that are wrong with this idea could take all day to go through, but the really idiotic ones I guess are, the plane didn’t blow up, Yemen is a very, very volatile place, part of which has been on the cusp of civil war for years, the other reasons are probably best described by naming random places, Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam…  I could go on, but I hope you get the point by now.

I learned an extremely valuable lesson upon recieving that beating, mainly that I will never be a hardman so I should stop trying, anytime I tried to show people I could fight I got my head kicked in.  This is maybe why I like America so much, because we are very alike, except I learned my lesson early on, and America doesn’t seem to take it on board.  I understand that they have claimed certain “victories” in order to not have it look like a complete waste of time, money and more importantly human life, but those victories don’t exist, they are merely to make the people who still care a little more content.  There will never be a victory in Iraq or Afghanistan, and to contemplate taking on a third front is just dumb…  I would have expected such a knee jerk reaction from the last administration, Bush would have probably nuked a bar for refusing him booze, but not from Obama.  Don’t get me wrong, I am not one of those “Obama will save the world” types, but I didn’t expect this.   In 2008/09 he promised to withdraw troops and close Guantanamo Bay, but now thanks to someone NOT blowing up a plane with an explosive that has failed to work twice now, he is going to keep G-Bay open to continue the torture and sodomy of it’s inmates, and start a whole new war with a Country who has along list of natural resources, which can be found in the same CIA World Factbook that I found them in.

It is what it is.

Henry Hunter

December Thirty First, Two Thousand and Nine.

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