The similarities of Obama’s War and Bush’s War are too obvious.
 
1. Both use the threat of nukes which has always been completely bogus.
2. Both wars never had a real exit strategy.
3. Both wars are fought on the premise of good vs. evil

In the end it doesn’t matter where or who we bomb as long as it meets the
following criterion:

1. We keep increasing the military budget.
2. it can only be 30 people at a time
3. they are not white

Up to 30 it counts as “collateral"damage.  Beyond that it’s “no-matter-all"murder.  A Just War?  No, just war.  As long as Homeland Security can keep fanatics with Arabic names getting into Army bases and onto civilian aircraft we can keep things moving and the military-industrial complex need have no fear of extinction.  In fact, “Extinctions R Us”. Yemen?  Yeah, man!

Of course it’s not funny.  But the element of farce is ever-present, as though the Devil, that old shape-shifter, wlll have his laughs, no matter what.

It’s the Air Force’s new 30-body-count smart bomb. It has a sensor that collects instant DNA samples of vaporized victims and doesn’t stop exploding until 30 genotypes are read.

rfidler:  You don’t really want to meet me.  I’m a 95 year old burned-out witch who writes poetry in her sleep.

gerard:

We must meet

Here we are again, winning hearts and minds in the Middle East by killing people, or helping other people to kill people.  To us, they are the terrorists.  To them, we are the terrorists.  Zero plus zero equals zero. 

The arithmetic of madness:
A group of people filled with hatred of “thems” sit in a cafe 4000 miles from a computer.  The computer zeros in on the group drinking cardamon tea and planning to blow up the computer and its chain of command consisting of other “thems”.  Question:  How many computers travelling at the speed of light will it take for Allah and Jesus to get together for the holidays?

Whena are we going to hear truthdig report that “Thousands saved in American-aided tsunami relief effort”?

This has both good and bad connotations.  The advent of technologically enhanced information, surveillance, and intelligence allows governments, on one hand, to track down and eliminate would-be wrong doers, but, on the other hand, may impeded legitimate claims against current authorities.