Bombing Mountains

From what I’ve seen of war, the idea is to blast the hell out of the other side until they surrender. Last one standing wins; at least that is how history reports it.

So we always had an enemy to fight. Another country or another race or another religion gave us reason to blast away for years and years. It was great for the economy for the hunters demanded bigger and better guns to hunt humans.

While the body count didn’t matter for we had lots of land to dump the carcasses the population gave up their sons and daughters while changing from building houses and refrigerators to tanks and cannons. All for the good of the country, we were told and off we went.

Reports of battles and bombs and destruction were just words in the newspaper. The war stayed ‘over there’. Letters and newsreels filled in the rest of the propaganda.

Correspondence of wars were heavily censored to not offend the people back home but when Vietnam came along, something slipped through the cracks. Parents started seeing why their sons were coming home in boxes.

9/11 introduced ‘live’ television of the event. This was not a censored and edited newsreel but multiple camera angles of minute-by-minute action including commentary.

So the President of the U.S.of the A. declared the enemy was ‘Evil’. We were going to war again ‘Terror’.

Take a moment to let that sink in.

Our country with all of it’s troops and planes and guns were going to fight an ideal. Where does ‘Evil’ live? How do we find ‘Terror’?

Seems some of the pilots were connected to Saudi Arabia, but they are our allies, so let’s go after the Taliban. We were not paying attention of the Russian debacle as their Vietnam.

So we load up and ship a bunch of fresh-faced kids who want to give a punch to this ‘Terror’ and it seems they live in the mountains in caves.

Send over the big planes with big bombs and bomb the mountains.

What? Wait? These are mountains. Did we not learn anything from Iwo Jima?

So these invasions of sovereign lands to attack and attempt to defeat such enemies as “Terror” and “Evil” seem to be accomplishing the same results as the “War on Drugs”.

I don’t know the military strategy and maneuvers and have never been in battle where survival is more important than some order, but I wonder the idea of bombing mountains?

Still the country I live in seems to want to be the world’s policeman and rid our threat from the ‘bad guys’ with the continuing sacrifice of children.

Maybe we can drain the oceans to get rid of the shark attacks?