Another day

Just another day.
Hours spent meaninglssly.
Doing tasks that dont need doing.
Change the font on a report.
Assemble a nice leather chair for the general.
Throw away the used office chairs, they're no good anymore.
Put the documents on the IPAD for higher.
Hows that for a commercial idea for apple:
Look, our products being used by the general!
FIGHT THE WAR ON TERROR WITH YOUR NEW IPAD!
Just like real armies do!
We have a hundred thousand soldiers here.
What do they do? Hide in their rooms, play x-box, wait for their tour to be over.
What do the citizens of our homeland do? they dont even know theres a war going on here.
We have fucking TGIFridays here, and we have fucking 107 mm rocket attacks.
Does that sound crazy to you?
What the fuck.
Look at me, I'm a hero. Flip my switch and I'll do the little hero dance for you.
March up and down, wave the flag. Lets all get teary eyed.
Who cares? Who cares?
It's just another tv show, right, just another ho-hum thing happening on the other side of the world.
Won't affect anyone _we_ know. And besides, the war is wrong, right? We don't have to
support soldiers who were in an unpopular war. We support soldiers who fight wars to
smash armies, not the ones who build countries. Building countries is boring. Blow something up!
Look how bad-ass our team is, we blow shit up!

Let me tell you a few things.

The people we fight?
They throw little kids in fires.
Then they bring them to the FOB and ask for medical help.
So they can time our choppers, and get real close and see how we do things.
They throw LITTLE KIDS IN FUCKING FIRES.

They bomb weddings.
Remember when you got married? Kisses? Cake? 20 dead? 60 wounded?

Fuck it, you wouldn't understand.
There's no news out of Afghanistan.
Think about it: we have over ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND SOLDIERS HERE.
How many times a day do you see what the streets look like here?
What the people wear? What they eat? What we do and where we go and what we wear?
What the houses look like? What the people look like? What happens here.

Let me tell you, as a soldier who wanted to show his wife what he had seen:
Even I COULD NOT FIND ANYTHING.
There is more reporting coming out about fucking polar bears than there is about AFghanistan.
What do the windows look like here? What about the doors? Whats a collot? Whats a quala? Whats
a Wadi? Whats a Dashta? Whats a DSH-K? Whats a camel spider? What does the color black mean
to a muslim? What about red? Green? White? What color did I not ask about?

That's cool. Lets bring all the soldiers home. We'll just declare victory and leave. Doesnt matter.
Doesnt mean anything at all.
No one here matters.
No one here means anything.
Anything at all.

What we do cant be Just, it cant be Good, it cant be Noble, because its not on the news.
We cant be doing the right thing, right? Cause its not on the news?

The news lies to you. The government lies to you. If we leave here, in five years we'll be in war somewhere else.
Because the enemy isnt the taliban. They're dead. Its not the insurgents, because they're amateurs.
Its other countries. Other countries that dump money and arms into this war, and not on our side.
Afghanistan is a chess board, and there are many people playing, and the locals here are just pawns.

Bah.
Another day. Tired.