war protest

Some time ago, back when the Iraq war was new, I entered the following triptych into my laptop’s “personal journal" folder:

Desert Storm
Desert Shield
Desert Vietnam

The reactions of the few people who saw or heard about this were unanimous. “No way this is Vietnam! We are Right and we’re going to go in and sock it to those A-Rabs NOW. Bang! Done! What’s the matter with you? Aren’t you a patriot?"

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