Here is a map of U. S. military presence in the Middle East.
Do we need a crystal ball to see where this is heading?
This clearly explains President Obama's recent announcement of mere token troop reductions from Afghanistan. No point to bringing them home when our boys will be eventually needed right next door, eh?
I intentionally phrased the question the way I did: How will it end? Because if America embarks on another of its imperial military misadventures, against the will of a war-weary public, further scraping at the bottom of its depleted barrel of borrowed bullion bankrolled by China and Japan, forcing Russia into a must-win defensive position, validating Russia's and China's certainty that the U. S. is attempting to establish hegemony over the oil fields of the region, it will be an end.
It will be the end of whatever America is or has pretended to be over its 200 years plus of pseudo-glory and presumed leadership of the world.
It will be the end of America as an idea and as the greatest promise in history.
This will not merely be a war with another country. This will be a war against ourselves.
A war we will most certainly lose . . . because there can be no winner.
[ This article originated at the author's blog site: http://jdrachel.com/slow-bullets/ ]
