The Eternal War

[unhappycamper]

http://watchingamerica.com/WA/2014/09/29/the-eternal-war/

The Eternal War
Published in Tal Cual Digital (Venezuela) on 21 September 2014 by Mario Szichman [link to original]
Translated from Spanish by Courtney Cadenhead. Edited by Gillian Palmer.
Posted on September 29, 2014.

Many a naive, lovesick woman has asked her suitor to protect his masculine health in order to avoid undesired pregnancy. However, the young man has usually left that protective accessory in his house, and his inclination, if consumed by the fires of passion, is not necessarily to get dressed again and run out to get it.

He could easily lose an hour in the process and register any number of disagreeable incidents. Therefore, he argues that nothing will happen in the amorous encounter, for he will barely introduce the extremity of his manhood in his lover’s body. This rarely happens, and we witness the consequences daily.

The North American military doctrine of “just the tip” finds its most illustrious example in the Vietnam War, whose promoter was President John F. Kennedy. In the beginning, the idea was to “insert the tip” by sending several CIA consultants to observe the war from the ground and give advice to the corrupt Saigon government about how to confront the North Vietnamese army. (The Vietcong guerrilla was an important but not decisive part of that war. Partisans are good at harassing the rearguard of the enemy, but only in rare occasions do they change the course of a conflict. A conventional army is needed to destroy the enemy.) Once the escalation had begun, and with Lyndon Johnson’s administration leading the conflict, the North American nation became impregnated with a war during which it would be forced to put more than half a million boots on the ground.

Now, General Martin E. Dempsey, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, has remarked that if the aerial bombings against the Islamic State’s Sunni militias turn out to be insufficient, he will recommend that President Barack Obama send soldiers to Iraq.

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