I proudly voted for Bush 43 twice but this administration has gotten completely out of hand.

American politics has a heartbeat and the emotion of our country runs very deep inside all of us. I believe it is within our abilities as citizens of this nation to do a collective gut check, lick our forefingers, stick them into the wind and ascertain which way it blows. Dylan said it first and today's weathermen are the Bill O'Reillys, the Keith Olbermans and the Chris Matthews of the world.

If we are honest with ourselves; we can all admit that during this past November's election, we saw the ruling mandate leak out of this presidency like air from a tire spiked with a five inch nail.

And if ever one needed proof that this administration is out of touch with reality, it's the recent press fervor over the President wanting to increase the size of the Army and Marine Corps. Folks, that ship has sailed.

Many make the argument that the historical occupation of Western nations rebuilding after an armed conflict took decades. But rebuilding infrastructure, like everything else in our world today, should and can be undertaken at the same light speed in which information and ambition travel.

Shit, if we can turn ten thousand acres of farm fields into a golf course community supported by both a Costco and a Wal-Mart in two years, surely we can secure the peace and rebuild infrastructure in a place where it already existed in five.

An administration with wisdom would pull the troops out when their function was completed.

An administration with brains would tell the world that our troops are coming home and that the all the cities and countries over there in the land of sand had better wise up and stop acting like 7th Century dopes duped by the written word and suppress their terrorist sub-cultures or else.

And an administration with balls would drop a thermonuclear bomb on the capital city of any country that allowed terrorist activity to fester into an attack on American citizens and load another one in the missile silo for the next bunch of stupid sons of a bitches dumb enough to fuck with a lion when he's cleaning his claws.

The War on Terror has become an atrocious display of corporate greed backed up by an unscrupulous spending-happy Congress and Lords of War military hardware manufacturers fueled by noble and patriotic soldiers and officers who are in danger of getting caught in a thick trap of their loyalty and honor.

I would never impugn the sacrifice that service men and women make for our country but Stephen Covey has a wonderful business analogy of people trying to make it through a jungle and frontline managers as the ones hacking through the underbrush while the true leaders are the ones who climb the tallest tree to survey the land and call down to the others, "Hey, we're in the wrong jungle." And the collective answer they get from the hacking managers is, "Shut up! We're making progress."

And I think the situation in the War on Terror is a lot like that--where the noble soldiers and officers are saying we're making progress and very likely are relative to their task at hand but We the people are ultimately responsible for determining if we are even in the right jungle.

And I think we're not only in the wrong jungle--we're in the wrong fucking desert.

What do you think? Holla!

NOTES:

• Picture by Jason

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