Oh Jenna

In Time magazine Jenna says it's not a practical question to ask her why she won't serve in Iraq or Afghanistan. She says she's serving by working to fight HIV/AIDS in South and Latin America. While her efforts to educate about HIV/AIDS and to help eradicate same are worthwhile, I resent her brushing aside the question of why she's not serving in a war her father started.

It sounds to me as if she's saying that it's not a good idea for her to go, after all she is rich and Republican and those type of people are never the ones who go fight our country's wars even the ones their daddies started, but it's fine for all those blacks, poor whites, and immigrants to go fight in a useless war for oil and revenge.

It's fine for them to kill millions of Iraqi's and Afghans. But she won't be getting that blood directly on her pretty little manicured hands. Last time I checked her hands would fit around a machine gun just as well as they would around a gin and tonic. So would Not Jenna's hands, and all those preppy Young Republicans who believe in the war but don't believe in it enough to go fight it, their hands would fit around a machine gun too.

The last major wars this country has fought, the current wars of terror on Iraq and Afghanistan and the Vietnam war, have been fiasco's because the people of this country have not been behind them. The nation as a whole has not felt the need to sacrifice anything the way people did during the Korean war or WW 2. Jenna's daddy is going to string this war out until he leaves office, if he leaves office that is, and he may try to start another war while he's at it. Most of the people of this country got hoodwinked into supporting the first war and I'm hoping we don't make the same mistake with Iran.

One thing's for sure though, if we do go to war with Iran then Jenna and her sister will damn sure not be anywhere near any battle field over there. But you remember that old saying don't you? It goes like this: The Apple doesn't fall far from the tree.