IS AFGHANISTAN ANOTHER VIET NAM? - Just a Minute Radio for Monday August 24th, 2009

Howdy on a beautiful morning… at least it ‘tis right here in this part of the Caroliner line.

I’m wrestling with my inner-self about all the waste and foul-ups I’m seeing in the American business market… particularly cars – and banks and threatening to slop over into health providers. I’m really troubled to see a 2002 Mercedes run for about thirty seconds before the engine seizes up and it’s become a piece of junk – and gonna be sold for junk.

For some reason I’m taken back to my Grand Pa’s farm right down here in the southern part of Greenville County… I used to visit there – mostly in the summer time. And my brother and I had a great time rummaging around in the ‘Smoke House’ where there were stacks of old magazines and there were workshops scattered in sheds and under the barn roof. I could never find the tools I wanted – and I think Grand Pa had the same problem especially after we left.

To make our toys we found rusty nails and bottle caps for wheels… and those were some funny looking contraptions. I don’t know what we would have done with a full sized car to play with. In another barn yard we found remains of an old truck – and it had a swastika stamped on the ignition port – very small. We thought it was something left over from the war… but it would have had to be the first World War because the second was still going on. Anyway we imagined great things.

I think it would have troubled Grand Pa to see such waste. We didn’t throw away bottles or other stuff that might have had some use in it. But of course the fields had been all changed with soil conservation measured… and cotton and corn were the major crops… with some feed stocks of wheat and oats. I didn’t know much about farming… but it was great to see things being accomplished. I just don’t think it’s very encouraging to see good machinery being scrapped. Somebody – maybe a lot of some bodies don’t have their heads screwed on right.

Tearing things down – or up, if you prefer – just goes against the grain. That’s why America feels shaky right now.

Cordially, IN HIM

Jack

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IS AFGHANISTAN ANOTHER VIETNAM?

Just A Minute – On November 5^th, 2008, Democrat dreamers envisioned Mt. Rushmore adding a portrait of President Obama. They’d done it too for LBJ.

The Obama’s had a group of historians over to the ‘working White House’ during those heady days -- among them the Sanford historian David M. Kennedy. Kennedy is sworn to secrecy of course – as were other guests such as Robert Caro, a respected LBJ biographer.

However, history writes itself – never mind the Massachusetts Kennedys affixing an ‘eternal flame’ in Arlington to claim their Camelot: though JFK’s Presidency was but three years -- they’ve tended it carefully.

Question: is a new crew working on – ‘Obamalot?’

Critics say Afghanistan can as readily become the noose around Obama’s neck as Viet Nam was for Johnson. Dr. Kennedy is quoted saying: “The analogy of Lyndon Johnson suggests itself very profoundly…”

There’s no question the legend of a President desiring to re-shape America in his own image while fighting an overseas war haunts the White House. Is Kabul coming to Washington?

<> I’m Jack Buttram

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