After reading the USA TODAY, Wed, Aug 4, 2010, “The Forum,” with an opinion piece by a Mr. Ronald Goldfarb, “Mr. President, quit Afghanistan, too,” I was so infuriated that I knew I had to write a piece for my blog. But, then I thought this guy Mr. Goldfarb is so stupid he would never understand what I would write anyway.
The first part of The Forum that got me was the stupid reference blaming the U.S. military: ”Newly elected presidents …get rolled by the military into fighting unnecessary wars.
Then Mr. Goldfarb went on to say: “John Kennedy learned the lesson fast, after our fiasco in Cuba.”
The problem for Mr. Goldfarb is that the U.S. Military advised Kennedy against any action in Cuba and it was the CIA who led the Cuban counter-revolutionaries to the Bay of Pigs while the U.S. military was ordered to sit on their hands by Kennedy. Mr. Goldfarb must have spoken stupidly.
It never ceases to amaze me how many stupid writers try to rewrite history to suit their political persuasion and preconceived notions.
So what changed my mind to write something?
Sitting in a doctors office awaiting my appointment, I saw a picture on the cover of TIME magazine, August 9, 2010, of a woman with her nose cut off. The caption at the side was: “What Happnes if we Leave Afghanistan.” The story inside was all about the plight of women in Afghanistan and what would happne if we left the country to the Taliban. The woman on the cover now has a gapping hole where her nose used to be becaue she ran away from an abusive husband – Taliban punishment.
Mr. Goldfarb probably has never read about what happend to over a million people in the former Republic of Vietnam when we quit and ran.
It’s anyones guess what will happen to those identified by another stupid journalist, Mr. Julian Assange (he calls himself a journalist), with his WikiLeaks that identified Afghans who have helped the U.S. The Taliban will do more than cut off noses.
As a famous movie character “Forrst Gump” once said: “Stupid is …as Stupid does.”
A news editor at USA Today should have caught the historical inaccuracies but then again they’re journalist too.
Never did understand what Mr. Goldfarb meant about quitting Afghanistan “too.”
