Let There Be Peace
by bobby jennings
 As a former
US serviceman serving in NATO forces in 1968-1969 and a concerned citizen of the
US and the World, I consider a call for NATO ground troops as socially
irresponsible. I call your attention to "Time Magazine" page 62 of the May 3rd,
1999 edition and the editorial by Charles Krauthammer where he labels the
Clinton Administration incompetent to wage a
ground war. This is a most compelling
argument against ground troops in which I share.
I feel very strongly in
favor of World intervention to combat genocide and might have been convinced for
the US or NATO to step in to stop the genocide in Yugoslavia even though this
action is in clear violation of both the spirit of the UN and itG??s charter.
However, the incompetence (Korea, Viet Nam, Iraq follow-through) of
primary US military intervention due to political waffling, except when our
forces a far superior (Panama, Grenada, Spanish American War, etc) argues
against intervention with ground forces.
The Clinton Administration is the
incompetent of the incompetent both morally and militarily. I voted for Clinton
twice and feel betrayed as do the majority of Americans who voted for the
democratic principles to which they gave political lip service. Already The Clinton
Administration
has joined The Harding Administration as the very worst in US history, but if the
Balkans spin completely out of control, t hey will join Hitler and Stalin as
supreme humanitarian villains.
Could it spin out of control? Consider.
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Serbia or Albania attacks each other. There are skirmishes on the border.
This could spark a pure Christendom-Islamic conflict catching NATO and US forces
in the middle.
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We have virtually made fun of Russia's economic plight and
weakness. They surely would intervene in Serbia's defense in a-? religious "them vs. us"
conflict.
Had we properly planned for military intervention as Colin
Powell and others did in Iraq, then I would have favored intervention. But it is
now apparent that was not the case. As for the US intervening on humanitarian
concerns, that is the biggest lie since Nixon denied bombing Cambodia or Johnson
prefabricated the Tolkin Gulf incident. Clearly if we had intervened in
Yugoslavia for humanitarian reasons, things would certainly be different.
Disregard the argument of whether we are causing human suffering and just
consider the minor incident of The Clinton Administration sending up a
G?political trial balloonG? to bring refugees to the Cuban Naval Base. Have you
ever heard anything so inhuman? And it doesnG??t start and end with the Clinton
Administration. The political incompetence runs deep to the local roots in this
country and our governments and courts have turned away from the principles on
which our country was founded.
Presently we ask ourselves, why
Littleton? And the only answer is, what do you expect with the way things have
been going in this century and escalating in the last sixty years. Escalating
with Roosevelt's blocking aid to the Jews during WWII and culminating to the
situation in this country where a lie is no longer a lie but G?spinG?, where
legislative systems are controlled by special interest and are full of
self-serving patrician members, where a political court system exists instead of
one that was designed to protect the citizens, where government goes to highest
bidder, where law enforcement officials routinely lie and cheat for convictions,
and finally where the "Fourth Estate" is more concerned with profits and ratings
than being socially responsible or calling a spade a spade.
Journalism was once
the epitome of integrity and social responsiveness but has now relegated itG??s
social responsiveness to being a poorly researched and produced carbon copy of
Sixty Minutes causing more harm than good. What happened in Littleton? It's not
complicated. Children are not being supervised by their parents. Why? Parents
are too busy trying to make a living and because a morally bankrupt government
serves as an example to both adult and children alike. And all the while a
journalistic community fiddles while all but the socially elite burn.
Are you aware that the gap between the rich and the poor in this country
is growing rapidly and the lower middle class has almost disappeared and the
majority of the poor are in jail or under court supervision? Do you understand
that we are so bombarded to consume excessively that many parents feel they both
need or have to work. So who do you think is watching the children? Don't think
it's getting worse? Let me refer you to Time again, same edition, page 38.
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Children spend on the
average of 3.5 hours alone.
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Parents spend 11 fewer
hours per week with their children than
they did in the 60's.
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Children have seen 8,000
murders in one media or another by the
time they graduate from grammar school.
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There has been a 1000 %
increase in depression in children since
the 60's.
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And finally, suicide is up
300% among children.
Not only has our society
slowly degraded but now we are really in a fix and caught between that proverbial "rock and
a hard place" and I shudder to think that if this War In The Balkans spins of control, that the
only answer would be a military takeover to prevent the World at war again.
Call me an extremist nut, which I am not. But
perhaps, if you are prone to nationalistic or ethnic superiority tendencies, you
might just look around and know you might be at least
be glimpsing the
future. I urge you to "belly up" to the Socially Responsible Bar and drink of
life's true nectar. Do your little part to return Amer-i-ca to the special
principles on which you thought it was founded and then maybe America can for once stand
as a shinning example of freedom of spirit to others and the World can finally
live in peace.
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