It's hunting season and Bubbie has one deer carcass in the freezer and a tag left to fill. It's a long winter and a couple deer will help keep food on the table until the spring. Bubbie pauses because something is on his mind and it's a burden. He has been trying to refrain from expounding on political topics, but his view is clouded and he needs some help in understanding how we invaded a country, captured it’s leader, dismantled it’s army and yet we are losing the war?
The Iraq Study Group Report has been published and Robert Michael Gates, Ph.D. was confirmed as the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense on December 6, 2006, and is scheduled to be sworn in to that position on December 18. He’s replacing Rummy, who has failed, and during his confirmation hearing he agreed with the report and stated that “We are losing the war in Iraq.” Well, as refreshing as that is, it’s perplexing as well. It seems that Bubbie’s government is speaking in a language he can now understand, yet all they are saying is the obvious. What Bubbie hears is hindsight spoken as future tense. It’s all so strange.
He grabs his rifle and wanders off into the woods to do a little more hunting. The air is fresh and life still feels worth living.
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