In case you haven’t noticed Afghanistan has sort of become a major hotbed of resistance to our military. There has been heavy fighting and far too many deaths of our military personnel. One thing that seems the most disappointing to me about Iraq and Afghanistan is how the local citizens do not seem fully committed to their freedom. As Americans I am not sure that we can completely understand this because most of us were born free and continue to live free.
I guess that it is tradition to end the previous year and start a new year with some wishes or resolutions for the future. As we move into the second decade of the 21st century I have a few of my own…hopefully for your enjoyment:
How many times have you heard this comment in the last six months?
“Worst economy since the Great Depression”
I think that the latest congressional plan for paying off the massive deficit will be to collect a nickel for every time that phrase is mentioned. If they had a nickel for each time that was mentioned, our deficit would be halved by the end of the year. That would probably work, except for the ”had.” I suspect we would be “had.”
