The Devil Hath Horns of Orange

The propagandist guilt being administered on the evening news is "The Women of Afghanistan."  Wouldn't we want to keep American troops there for another twenty years, because of these women?  If we cared for our own women as much.  It is a shame the political nature of these Middle Eastern nations, but we cannot change it.  We shouldn't change it.  It is not our responsibility to change it.  Would we care so much about the women in Iraq?  The women elsewhere?  No, so they need to stop squeezing this lemon.  If Gen. Mark Milley wants Joe Biden to keep our troops in Afghanistan, then we should be honest enough to say why.  It isn't their women.  It is their other natural resources.  Obviously the men of Afghanistan have a low opinion of their own women, but misogyny isn't uncommon in the world.  Our regard of this country is for other reasons.  These reasons are precious natural resources in the form of minerals and other elements buried in those vast mountains.  We are experiencing a lithium shortage.  Let us be bold enough to say that the poppies grown in the country may be of more value on the open market.  Poppies and minerals.  Not women.  Stop pitching us, "The Women of Afghanistan" show.  They are as worthy as women in other nations, maybe more?  If the Joints Chief of Staff decide to keep American troops in this country, it is not because of their women.  For twenty years our troops have been allowed to play army on this battlefield, so what will they do now?  Who are we to fight?  If the American military wants to fight so badly (and it is their chosen vocation) then perhaps we can send them to Mars to fight themselves.  Then America can begin the slow recovery to a peace time economy.  We are not sure if it is possible, because defense companies are so aggressive pandering their wares.  Without conflict how could we use all of these high tech war tool?  Ross McNutt pitched his invention of 360 degree aerial surveillance from a low flying Cessna 24/7.  The trouble was someone has to view and analyze all of that video footage.  After annoying countless citizens for several years, and with the American police force under scrutiny for malfeasance, they discovered this methodology helped no one.  No more criminals were being caught than before, but our civil rights upon were being infringed.  It was not until recently that Covid necessarily stymied most outdoor activity, so how could such an expense be justified?  America's first billionaire, a Texas gas trader and his wife, paid for such surveillance over American cities.  This is not Constitutional.  Luckily Joe Biden knows better, and while the conspiracy theories, falsehoods, and misdirection continue from the new Republican party, we will not have it.  Witch Hunt chasing demons and Chupacabra no longer will suffice when half a million Americans have perished from a new virus.  We need to get out of the Middle East and repair America, but I am not sure it is possible.  We have forsaken our own country, our own people, and our own economy for the rich.  We have been thrown to the dogs, and unless this contingency of goat suckers is identified, taxed, and prosecuted when necessary the demise of America will continue.  Joe Biden is the right leader, and he knows the deal.  Agent Orange is pacing in circles isolated in his Florida mansion.  The devil.