Peaks and valleys

[aadler]

 
Another weekend, time to relax. Last night SSG V and I went to the Cuban Club with our interpreter; despite the name, the place is actually a sort of diner. Tomorrow we may grill fajitas on one of the beaches. It’s a brutal pace, but I’m holding up to it.

I’ve read all the stories I downloaded from remix_redux. Not all the stories posted there, just the ones I copied, some due to the names of the original authors, some in an attempt to pick out which remix my daughter did. (She confirmed that I’d made the right guess. Oh, yeah, I’m hot.) Even though my primary fandom of interest is the Buffyverse, it seemed to me that the Firefly stories were generally better done. I don’t have the spare time to sift through everything in remix_redux, so I’ll welcome recommendations. The fandoms that interest me are Buffy/Angel, Smallville, Veronica Mars, Firefly, Heroes, and Lost. I don’t read slash, I don’t read graphic sex, and I don’t read incest fic of any persuasion. Keeping those limitations in mind, anybody have any favorites they’d like to advise me about?

Rant commences:

Yes, I’m on easy duty right now, and loving every moment of it. I did my time in the desert, though, and I’ll be doing it again next year. By choice: I volunteered for Iraq, volunteered for Afghanistan, and I’ll probably have to sign a waiver allowing my redeployment to Iraq. I’m doing this because I believe in it, and there’s nothing special about that because the same is true of almost everyone who wears the uniform.

That being so, the developing political situation continues to anger me. The American public are tired of the Iraq war? the American public aren’t fighting the Iraq war! The Army and the Marines are doing that, and our biggest discouragement stems not from dangers in the field, but from the pusillanimous speech of people determined to cut our legs out from under us while insisting it’s for our sake.

Lest that be considered too vague, I’ll clarify: George Tenet is a lying asshole. Harry Reid is a quasi-treasonous asshole. And Nancy Pelosi is just an idiot.

The Democratic leadership are declaring defeat — and doing their damnedest to make it certain — because they need defeat in Iraq; victory would strengthen the Republicans, a horror not to be countenanced. Those would be the hard-core policital whores, but the true believers are no better; if they’re too stupid to recognize that quitting whenever things get tough will not only be seen as weakeness, but will actually constitute weakness, then they’re too stupid to serve in elected office.

In five years we’ve lost fewer Americans than a score of murderous fanatics managed to kill in one day with four hijacked planes. Yet the talking heads act as if every day in Iraq were another Shiloh or Guadalcanal.

We’re not losing. We’re being betrayed. For our own good, of course.

Let us fight, you bastards! Let us finish the job we volunteered to do! No enemy on this earth can beat us. It takes the Democratic Party to do that.

Rant concludes.

No, I’m not at all bitter.

Let the weekend begin.

Comments

[texanfan.livejournal.com]

Quite so.