http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/04\/17\/former-afghan-president-massive-us-bomb-was-an-atrocity.html<\/a><\/p>\nHe says the GBU-43 (Giant Bomb Until-exploded #43) MOAB is an atrocity. I think that\u2019s really rich coming from him, don\u2019t you? Isn\u2019t he the whiner who talked the US into prying the Taliban out of Afghanistan when he couldn\u2019t get it done? And didn\u2019t he tolerate their bad behavior and their atrocities until they sent that country into the toilet? Or is my memory fading? Is Karzai bored since he left office? He seems to want attention rather badly. So is Karzai\u00a0longing for a war now?<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been a while since the feeling that something big was going to happen hit me like a brick, but last Friday night, after running errands all afternoon so that I wouldn\u2019t have to do it\u00a0on Saturday, I went over to the restaurant on the highway to get some supper instead of cooking. There was a lot of stuff on the TVs hung over the food area, the usual chatter and some sports stuff and I paid no attention, because whatever is going to happen, is going to happen. Right?<\/p>\n
Must have been liberty weekend or something. Some E-2 sailor wearing crackerjacks was sitting in a booth with his girlfriend, talking on the\u00a0 phone with his mother. Or talking to the phone, because you could hear Mom, too. I had eyes and ears on the news. The chatter\u00a0from the sailor\u2019s phone con, while distracting from the news, wasn\u2019t enough to grab my attention until that noise changed to \u201cbut, Mom, if we go to war\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n
Oh, shit.<\/p>\n
For those of you too young to remember, the USS Pueblo was off the coast of North Korea, supposed to be in international waters, when she was hijacked by the Norks under Kim Il-Sung (Grandpa Kim) on January 23, 1968. \u00a0I was sorting prints in the print finishing room at NAVPHOTOCEN, Anacostia, which has been replaced by some other\u00a0building. A PH1 came out of the Chief\u2019s office to let us know what had happened. He said it was \u2018an act of war\u2019, which meant we\u2019d be in it for the duration. Yes, there was that sinking feeling that came and went. What did it really mean? \u00a0LBJ did consider using nukes over that.<\/p>\n
A bare\u00a0seven days later in the wee hours of the morning\u00a0on January 30, 1968, Uncle Ho launched his\u00a0 attack on every ville, city, and military base in South Vietnam. The Tet Offensive lasted until September that year. I didn\u2019t have a TV or radio at my apartment, and a lot of other things were going on stateside that accompanied the uptick in warfare in Vietnam, and all the discord that went with it. I tried to keep up with it all, based on the chatter at work.<\/p>\n
The Norks still have the Pueblo, as a museum. We need to bomb that sucker into oblivion, first thing. Take away their \u2018glory\u2019. \u00a0Coordinate something with the Chinese, because this isn’t Norkiland’s 1952 when the Chinese were supporting them. \u00a0The Chinese want foreign trade. We’re one of their biggest customers.<\/p>\n
You could put a real conspiracy theory novel together over collusion between Kim Il-Sung and Ho Chi Minh, if you took the time to do it. It would probably be more accurate and more entertaining that Ollie Stone\u2019s conspiracy theory twaddle. Was the hijacking of the Pueblo an attempt to start World War III or maybe revive the Korean War? \u00a0And let’s not forget the (not Norks’ – my bad!) Soviets’ \u00a0shooting down Korean Airlines\u00a0Flight 007 in September 1983, because the pilots strayed slightly off course.<\/p>\n
So, Mom, Dad, I don\u2019t think we will go to war. Trump is not Lyndon Johnson, not by a long shot.<\/p>\n
But if we do go to war, I hope it\u2019s quickly over. I hope our losses are minimal. And I hope your kids come home intact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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