IWO JUMBLE

      In spite of a serious spike in American crime because of defunded and demoralized police; and tyrannical politicians and corporate overlords imposing vaxx mandates; and flash flooding killing dozens because nobody has bothered building levees or dams for 60 years; Americans nationwide are chimping out this weekend because of photo that's gone viral on the Internet. It seems that some wags in Afghanistan copied a pose from a historic photograph of the Iwo Jima flag-raising and Americans believe it an insult to (whatever's left of) our National Honor.

    Ooops....not that picture. True, this is what activist Democrats and do-nothing Republicans have turned our military into; but nobody is ever outraged about that or thinks it a disgrace to the legacy of our genuine heroes. The public is furious over this:

      To my mind, it seems sort of natural that men fight a battle and win; and might afterwards taunt an enemy. We, the true-blue Americans, of course, never do things like that.

    What the Taliban actually did was to commit one of the most unpardonable social taboos in postmodern American Culture: they were insensitive. Many Americans' feelings have been injured and many have been deeply triggered by some of the hurtful things that the Taliban has said about us. It's to be supposed that our bases here in the States will be ready with grief counselors and that Big Pharma will have to supply a record contract for antidepressants to treat all of the returning servicemen and women. Imagine some poor Air Force pilot who spent tours of duty over there with nothing more dangerous than dropping cluster-bombs on schoolchildren from 30,000 feet. Then, suddenly he has to flee Bagram Air Base with some high-level defense contractors, along with their cargo of looted gold and favorite boy-toys. Imagine how traumatizing it was for him to take off for the Beltway and looking out of the cockpit and seeing Taliban soldiers shaking their fists at him and calling him an American pig. This deep emotion wasn't lost on many pundits:

      Well, technically it isn't our equipment. The Geneva Convention allows for Spoils of War. Did we give back all of the weapons taken from the Taliban or Iraqi Army? No. (Those were taken and sold to terrorist organizations and drug cartels, but we digress). And arguably it befouled Iwo Jima's eternal sacrifice a lot more by giving the island back to the Japs in 1968. But we can agree that Biden betrayed dead Americans too, since a lot of the votes he got from the deceased were likely WW2 vets.

    

    Yes, indeed. Of course our soldiers don't subject innocent people to slavery and despotism. Except in enforcing illegal travel bans, or enforcing illegal curfews, or carrying out illegal acts of surveillance on American citizens. And a lot of us consider it an even more humiliating and infuriating image to see cadets ordered to wear women's shoes and march in Feminist parades. It's also a sad sight to see US warships named for homo activists. 

   Given all of our military's problems, I think that foreign guerrillas posing in captured uniforms is among the least of things that we should find concerning. In fact, we have a lot of our people posing as a real defense force who really shouldn't be there. Or for that matter, a lot of people posing as pundits who shouldn't be taken seriously either.