Carpet bombing followed by boots on the ground, any American who pretends that these two phrases define modern American Exceptionalism, should express their very desire to enlist in the military to get those boots on the ground as quickly as possible. We were Exceptional Americans and knew that domino’s would fall in SouthEast Asia if we did not carpet bomb and attack. In those days we had the Draft, but as usual if you felt you were that really Exceptional American you had a deferment, cause Viet Nam was kind of creepy and scary. Usually one deferment was okay but it was a long war and many people of money and power had 2, 3, or four deferments (ask Dick Cheney and Donald Trump about that). We showed just how Exceptional we were as Americans as we left our South Viet Nam allies behind and ignored blamed and scapegoated our returning Vets.
We declared a war in Iraq, because we believed our Republican president (everyone knew that it was the Republicans who were tough and defined American Exceptionalism. It was going to be quick and easy and we were reminded that if we didn’t give the enemy HELL a huge mushroomed shaped bomb would fall on us. We kind of sort of declared victory in Iraq and knew this time that having stolen oil from that country we actually had to go after the nation where the real villains had been hiding all the time, Afghanistan. With this war however, the puppet masters realized that a draft would only deter so we invented an all volunteer army and ended up having the SAME men and women volunteer, volunteer and volunteer. We cried and clamored more, more, more and we are still at war in both countries. Of course many of those people with power never had their kids VOLUNTEER, nope those children needed to stay home and keep the American Exceptional thing remaining in tact. We brought our Vets back some in body bags and some without limbs, some incapable of thinking clearly, and some so suicidal. In these wars we at least treated the Vets as the hero’s they were, but the same American politicians, most of them Republican didn’t think we had to spend Exceptional American dollars on their recovery or their lives.
Now we must once again face the madmen of the Middle East. We, the American Exceptional dominate country, must eradicate evil from the Earth and try and fight it with the most modern of weaponry and of course our Exceptional American Troops. One might take a peek at the Viet Nam War when our super powers did nothing but torch the Earth kill millions of bad and good guys and still we never won. The privileged did not serve in that war as the privileged have not served in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. We can carpet bomb and when it is time for the Boots on the Ground we should ask the question just who will those boots be fighting and whose kids will place their feet inside those boots. It is often so much easier to brag about American Exceptionalism when it is the OTHERS who will do the fighting. If war IS necessary and all of the Patriots waving their Confederate Flags, walking into Wal-Mart with their open carry arsenal, swearing that Jesus wants war, if all of these men and women just volunteered to and took their American Exceptional pride along with them maybe we can win. Oh yeah and along with these Exceptional Americans lets have the politicians,their children or grandchildren, wave that flag and also enlist. Maybe then if the same power as the rhetoric used to declare war is transferred to those who shout it loud we might win!
