Troop Levels and Airborne Electricity

It was on the front page of the Fayetteville Observer today, that the Pentagon has been lying to the American people about the number of U.S. military on the ground in Afghanistan.  Warning signal number one.  Transparency in government.  We should be shitting in our boots.  The Donald is president, Congress is corrupt, and media lies through their teeth in a huge diversion away from the fleecing of Americans.  With a lifted ban on supplying local police forces with military weaponry, images of Fascist skirmishes should percolate to the surface of our brains.  All ready images of armor-clad warriors carrying sticks marching in tandem should be frightening.  The military in Fayetteville no longer seems to be down home, gung ho, G.I.'s.  Instead they are distant, aloof, and unreachable.  I am surrounded by them.  There are three military officers living in close proximity to my house, yet I know none of them.  They are reclusive.  While I do feel safe in my home for obvious reasons, I cannot say without a doubt that these men know for what they are fighting.  I think not.  I think they are an example of most military people, needing a job, needing structure, and not questioning authority.  Will I trust them when the end comes?  Maybe.  I do not agree with their chosen vocation.  I don't hold a grudge because they have chosen to be warriors.  I believe that war is the last choice, and that peace is a more rewarding lifestyle.  The argument rests that we need warriors to ensure our peace and freedom.  The only challenge to our freedom in recent years was 9/11, and that was instigated by a feud between little W. and his playground playmate, Osama Bin Laden.  Bin Laden offered his militia services to the Saudi's, and they declined.  He was a jilted lover and came after Bush.  Is North Korea seeking to attack the United States?  I think not.  I think the Donald is perturbed to his soul that a young, emboldened, Communist leader won't kiss his rich ass.  Good.  Does this merit nuclear war?  Our current Secretary of Defense, although I do not know his name, seems to be rational.  Diplomacy is the right path, although media continues to spin Kim's words.  Bill Maher thinks that Pakistan is the imminent threat all ready possessing nuclear weapons.  What does the American public know of this?  Nothing.  We hear about Iran and their nuclear program, and since the Donald has been in office the Iran Nuclear Deal is mum.  Donald campaigned, lied, and misdirected his intentions during the presidential election.  He must be the biggest liar in American presidential history, and yet still he remains.  Impeachment is necessary, and yet the fleas are swarming on his fur digging for blood.  It is nauseating.  Washington is a joke, a bigger joke than Monica Lewinsky, and we have to read about it every day.  One has to decide whether to laugh at the war-mongering propaganda or consider it.  How can we not consider what is governing our own lives?  It is interesting to me that General Electric, a pioneering American industrial giant which introduced electricity into our lives, also has become America's electrocutioner.  (That really is not a word, but I am coining it)  I have been shocked by static electricity present on our property at least four times in the last week.  There is electricity freely flowing through our air, I assume static electricity, and I am getting shocked by it.  I pick up my electric bass, and I get shocked.  I turn on our garden pump, and I get shocked.  I open our fridge in our garage, and I get shocked.  If only there was a way to absorb and repurpose this airborne electricity, I could be a millionaire.  The issue remains, to whom to I make the complaint?  The military is hard at work complying to Tillerson's wants.  He is to be feared, the CEO of a company responsible for one of the worst oil spills in American history.  Reward him by making him Secretary of State.  The Exxon Valdez.  It took years to recover from that grimy mess.  how long will it take the world to recover from the Trump presidency?  We need to start now.