Re: W's war
I'm going to relay a little literary reference as a sort of a Parable.<br /><br />Back in college, I read a book called "The Real adventures Of Huck Finn" In it the authors were fans of the original Twain novel, except for the ending, which they felt was contrived.<br /><br />If you recall, Huck and Jim were floating down the river, searching for Cairo, Illinois and freedom. They missed the connection to Cairo, and continued on 'down the river', where each adventure they had seemed somehow darker and more ominous than the last one. And yet they were trapped by the inevitable flow of the river, inevitably leading them to a darker reality.<br /><br />Twain resolved this by intoducing Tom Sawyer back into the story, and some fanciful tale of how it didn't really matter anyway. This is what those afforementioned authors disliked, and they wanted to continue it to the logical conclusion.<br /><br />This is comparable IMO, to this godawful war we are in, and how we have been "Sold down the River". At this point, there is simply no good way out, there is no answer, and we will inevitably be taken further and further down this river, with more and more ominous results, less and less chance of any good result, with few if any options available to change it.<br /><br />As Colin Powell said "You break it, you own it!"<br /><br />I just wish someone would come by willing to buy it from us.
