USA Today has this editorial cartoon by Joe Heller this morning. It shows a guy filling up his camper while overlooking a cemetery of tombstones named.. Iraq, Korea, etc. The caption says:
"I'm not going to complain about the high cost of anything this weekend."
And while I understand all too well that as you get closer to death many things get less important, I must say:
What pure BS.
My father and four uncles did not serve in WWII, nor did the other millions who served then and since then, including my ten years in Naval Aviation, to save the world so that thugs and dictators can rip off this country, and the world. What OPEC and world wide speculators are now doing is nothing less than a attack on us.
And that we have enabled them with stupid energy polices does not forgive what they are doing nor make it right.
As I write this there are elderly who are trying to figure out what medications they can do without to enable them to buy food and pay utility bills.
There are families world wide who can't afford a pound of rice because of the price increases.
And the future looks bleak.
Heller's cartoon speaks of death in war. Yet millions of those who died in WWII could have been spared if Chamberlain had not disgraced himself and England with "peace in our time" with Hitler, the French responded with vigor when Germany's troops first crossed the border, if we had done whatever we needed to do in Korea and Vietnam, taken our embassy back from the radicals in Iran and finished Desert Storm.
Simply put, you can't put rabbits in the cage with a boa constrictor. At some point the snake will eat the rabbit. It is what they do.
We have fed the snake for years. But now its appetite has grown larger and wants our dogs and cats. What comes next? Our old people and our children?
It is time for action. Not the false sympathy and misplaced sadness of Heller's cartoon.
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