It has sorta faded from the “news” lately, but not so long ago the Army was press-ganging scores of commissioned officers back into active duty who thought they’d done their time.  Some loophole in their contracts, however, left them subject to apparently indefinite terms of effectively indentured servitude.  Do “retired” general officers have some kind of R-H-I-P exemption from that clause?

Here in Indian Country nobody really wants to be “War Chief,” either, but when we were attacked those many moons ago the Grandmothers got together to choose someone for it....as they do still today.  It was, and is, often a person the warrior societies would never’ve considered, but invariably turns-out to be the right one.

The Americans did try to incorporate some of our principles of “government” into their new republic, but left-out such vital considerations as only the Women’s Council being able to decide for war.  Vesting that in a Congress of, at the time, propertied males, and one still completely dominated by them, guaranteed this crucial authority would one day be usurped by an ambitious executive.  Those know-it-alls, like Custer a hundred years later and the rogue regime in-power now, “had no ears.”

So today we all see an americanpeople scared out of their wits by a bunch of adolescentoid wannabe gangbangers who themselves are notoriously too chicken to fight, but get-off on sending others’ sons and daughters around the world to do their corporate sponsors’ dirty-work for them.  That such a come-down was inevitable doesn’t lessen the gravity of its consequences for the “homelanders.” These are instead magnified many-fold by modern-day electro-mechanical implements of warfare and social control.

Right now we’re watching, here in Indian Country, to see if there are any survivors washed back ashore when the U.S. pirate-ship-of-state finally founders from the sheer weight of the criminal deeds it carries.  If there are, it’ll be good if they make-up their minds from the get-go to do things right, for a change....because this time we’ll be throwing them back in the ocean if they won’t.

Meantime, the search for a “war czar” undoubtedly goes on.  Expect whoever finally gets the job to be cut from exactly the same cloth as those who pick him for it....not a very encouraging prospect for your averageamerican.

HokaHey!

Gen. Sheehan makes points that many other experienced experts have made: The Bush-Cheney administration seems to be responsible for flawed implementation of flawed policies (though things are not always what they seem with the Bush-Cheney bunch).

Of course, the term “flawed” hardly is adequate to describe the invasion and occupation of another country based on false intelligence, resulting in deaths and injuries to thousands of US troops and hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis (including children) and the waste of hundreds of billions of US taxpayer dollars in the process.

When US troops eventually are extricated from this mess, the dishonor and “defeat” will be the responsiblity of the Bush-Cheney gang, their associates and supporters ... NOT the troops themselves.

For more on this:

“Victory of Courage, Fellowship and Honor”

PopulistAmerica.com
December 17, 2006

http://www.populistamerica.com/victory_of_courage_fell owship_and_honor

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“Chicken hawks are real and dangerous”

PopulistAmerica.com
November 26, 2006

http://www.populistamerica.com/chicken_hawks_are_real_ and_dangerous

Only one of a few good men left ! I take of my hat, General !