One Little Question For Memorial Day

The recent Iranian kerfuffle has brought out the hate America and the not quite hate, but the disdain for America crowd.  These are not just the Trump haters but the people who have spent their whole lives disparaging America.  And this well before there was a Donald John Trump 45th and 47th POTUS.  They can't write a book, make a speech or have a discussion without saying something degrading or nasty about the United States of America.

In response, we happened to realize something and that led us to this one little question.

The United States of America has military bases in 49 different countries.  If you ask the internet it will give you different numbers every time but we can be pretty sure it's at least 49 countries.  So the question is, what do all those countries have in common?  Different parts of the world, different cultures, different languages, different religions and yet, one thing in common.

It's just a one word answer but before we give it to you, we have to make a little notation about the U.A.E. Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Jordon, Turkey and Oman.  They all came under attack during this Iranian kerfuffle.  But stop to think about how many casualties those countries would have suffered had they not had American air defenses, intercepting most of those missiles and drones fired at them.

And now for the answer, drum roll please....  The answer is...  Peace.

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Have You Been Paying Attention?

Certain things have appeared in the WOWTMSM since the kerfuffle with the Iranian regime began and we were just wondering if people were paying attention.  This is not an official quiz.  There will be no prizes.  But have you heard these?

Another forever war.

America has no plan.

The war is expanding.

America is running out of missiles.

The Houthis have entered the conflict.

The war is expanding.

The IRGC will wait till the bombs stop, crawl out of their holes and start the regime all over again like nothing happened, other than a lot of guys will have gotten promoted.

Iran still has a nuclear program that they can start over in three weeks, no two weeks, no by next Tuesday.

The war is expanding.

Another forever war.

This war is like 'Whac-A-Mol'e, kill one IRGC or Basij leader and another pops up.

The war is expanding.

The IRGC and the Basij militia will go into Guerilla war mode after the bombing stops.

The Terrorists have won.

Another forever war.

And now to see if you have been paying attention.  But just two questions because as previously mentioned, this is not an official quiz.

Question 1)  How many of the above statements have appeared in the WOWTMSM?

A.  8  

B.  5 

C.  All of them except, the Terrorists have won.

D.  2

Question 2)  How many of them turned out to be true?

A.  All of them.

B.  10

C.  None

D. 1.

Answers

Question 1)  Correct answer C.  All except the Terrorists have won.  We haven't heard that one in a long time.  It was big after 9/11.  We just threw that in to be funny.

Question 2)  Correct answer C, none.  But if you picked D, we'll give that to you because the Houthis did fire one missile at Israel and they kept announcing that they were going to join the war even if they never did.  We're not hard task masters.

If watching and listening to the WOWTMSM has left you perplexed don't worry, as they don't worry about it too much either.

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Don't

Yeah, yeah we know there is a war going on but it's just blah, blah, blah everyday with whoever you happen to tune into saying the same old, same old.  Like they know what's going on.  Now we've put our military hats on and we know what's going on but we'll wait till the smoke clears before we give our analysis.  

And there are other things happening in this world.  Take those commercials that jump out of you whenever you're watching something on Youtube and usually just when something got real interesting.  Sometimes right in the middle of a word. 

Hey we're not complaining.  We have to log onto a lot of sites and we just don't want to pay the few bucks that will make the advertisements go away, so tough noogies on us.  But we can't help but wonder which one of these dumb ass commercials are the worst.  We even have categories.

The One That Can't Possibly Be True.  There is this little box, designed by former NASA engineers that will cool any room in 90 seconds.  Any room?  You mean like St. Patrick's Cathedral?  Cost?  19.99? 29.99?  Doesn't matter you can buy a fan for less which is what this thing will turn out to be.

Don't Try This At Home.  A middle aged guy comes on and tells you.  " Forget Viagra!  Don't waste your money on those pills!  I'm going to tell you how to get rock hard for hours!  Just get some Vick's Vapor Rub and..."  Not only don't try this at home but hit the that skip button real fast.  Before you even think of it.

It Won't Work But It Can't Hurt.  It's a little drawing that shows a woman drinking a glass of water.  Then a nice soothing voice comes on and says.  "Drink a glass of warm water before you go to bed and your vision will improve overnight."  And when that doesn't work don't worry, as there are commercials that will tell you how they got something to stop you from getting up to pee three and four times a night.

Okay, okay there is a war going on and try not to get too stressed out.  Remember the terrorists have won.  The Russians are this fearsome military power, that will over run Ukraine in a few weeks.  Global warming which was later changed to Climate Change, will cause the seas to rise, and the Polar Ice Caps to melt by the year 2000.

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