Ghost Troop Home Page April Fools Part 3
I’m up late tonight, Chase, same as most nights. I don’t guess the boys in
I know it’s weird, but I wish I were with them, either place, here or there. I know they’re alone, and I know their situation is worse than we’re finding out. I’ve developed the idea that the media has become a silencer for the weapons of war. The American People still can’t see most of what went wrong or what is going wrong, still less what will go wrong. Very few of the people playing with politics know their ass from a hole in the ground when it comes to military reality, and GWB isn’t one of them.
We’re headed for a historic defeat. There, I’ve said it, and I’m the guy who has said it straight since we fenced with chopsticks and geopolitics over Vietnamese food back before the war, while Miss Gretchen looked on benignly to keep a check on my manners and your sly arguments…
We’re headed for a historic defeat. There, I’ve said it twice, and they (and you) still don’t understand that the desert has swallowed the bones of invading armies since the Sumerians and Egyptians.
We’re headed for a historic defeat. That’s thrice I’ve said it, and I beg that someone pick up the phone and tell George that Captain May said so.
Do you think he knows who I am? I know who he is. He’s a man with moral conviction. That means he won’t be swayed, because the lives of our soldiers are all that keeps him and his dynasty from utter failure in the area of the world where they wanted to build up Texas-sized clout. He doesn’t change his mind once he’s made it up, and he’s going to see the hand through. Don’t you remember the line from “3/7 Cavalry, tragedy and travesty” where I said he would be called George Custer Bush? I’m beginning to see that the whole essay is haunted by my ghosts.
Captain May
Ghost Troop Home Page April Fools Part 3