Man! Dude! Session #135

(M)an: Dude! The United Nations has only received one-third of $1.5 billions dollars pledged by the international community according to reports out of Jabir, Jordan courtesy Nabih Bulos. However, Paul Ryan’s budget proposal is openly providing for $554 billion dollars for keeping America safe through national defense spending.

(D)ude: Man! As the United States of America Commander In Chief, President Obama can collaborate with the House Budget Committee and secure funds for assisting Jordan and other nations like it to keep aiding the countless and quadrupling populations of refugees from Syria that will otherwise have perished under Assad’s regime.

M: Dude! Aren’t refugee encampments like the ones in Zaatari, Jordan deserving of some of the United States’ defense spending? I mean, look at the way the Jordanian soldiers already have to deal with the stifling conditions due to the overpopulation in encampments. The only way to bypass the Jihadists from creating and spreading trouble in the torn Syrian landscape under Assad’s regime, is for US to assist Lebanon, Turkey, and-as much as the GOP will be terrified in its small-minded hysterics in the United States Congress- Iraq!

D: Man! If these Halliburton tycoons like George W. Cheney-Rice-Rumsfeld are so adamant about how they liberated the Iraqi people, then the Republican Party under House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell must follow through on the promises made with the new Iraq that is right now struggling to fit the influx of refugees from Syria with the financial backing of the Persian Gulf nations like Saudi Arabia.

M: Dude! The militaries of these countries have done so much with so little financing. The least the United States Congress can do is give our allies in these defining times the 2 to 10 billion dollars necessary to make the living conditions in the refugee camps tolerable and safe.

D: Man! Refugee camps are a form of militarization and national defense for US. If we want to protect the world from Jihadist chaos, we need to fund the military engagements that nations like Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia are making in goodwill. Maybe the Jihadists will also begin to decline with the United States’ ability to entrust its allies with financial aid for these refugee camps. There is one refugee camp in Saudi Arabia that hasn’t opened yet. Maybe as our sons and daughters are returning from Afghanistan, we could give them reassurance that their sacrifices are continuing to keep Americans safe by US engaging in funding these refugee camps for Syrians.

M: Dude! We need an alliance with the Muslim world and our militaries. Maybe the soldiers who have come home can build a system of communication with which to assist their international counterparts with strategies and other problem-solving models of intervention via Skype and/or however else US soldiers can communicate and lead without necessarily their boots on the ground.

D: Man! Representative Tammy Duckworth of Illinois is an Iraq War Veteran with countless ideas of how to administer military intervention via Internet. We could even have our Veterans become paraprofessional counselors and consultants operating via Skype with not only the boots on the ground over there, but with civilians who have lost their loved ones and battling the wounds within and without. Maybe the 22 US soldiers who commit suicide daily can finally be given the justice they are long overdue.

M: Dude! I would like to see the backlogs at the Veterans Administration cleaned up and computerized immediately with part of the national defense funding the GOP Budget offers. A war does not entail soldiers engaging in battlefields necessarily. The new millennium warfare entails an attitude of justice for our sons and daughters in uniform that Eisenhower put into place: that warfare is not over until the last veteran of a war has lived a life of personal fulfillment at home and died from natural causes in the arms of his or her loved ones, not alone and facing personal financial ruin because the leading country in the free world could not get its Veterans Affairs organized into efficiency.

D: Man! I’m going to be losing a lot of sleep now that we’ve talked. Imagine how hard an existence it must be for the countless men and women who return home to only find their deservedly due compensations missing in some backlog! There is no time to waste in the field of mental rehabilitation, let alone physical rehab.

M: Dude! Time is too precious and there is a window of opportunity here right now.

D: Man! Time is everything! And if we can clean up the administrative mess in our military and assist others in maintaining peace and coherence in the overpopulated refugee camps, then we are on the road to somewhere productive in the wake of this Republican Sequestration.

M: Dude! I agree with you all the way in supporting our veterans and making sure of their welfare and achievements in overcoming the wounds of service.

D: Man! What about the militaries of our allies? What about them?

M: Dude! President Obama must redefine warfare in the new millennium. He can collaborate with Representative Tammy Duckworth and others like her in leadership positions that have survived insurmountable pain and anguish to rise up once again on behalf of our allies and US.

D: Man! Never again! Remember how that line was adopted after the Holocaust?

M: Dude! Never again! It mustn’t be set-aside for historians alone.

D: Man! The people must act in order for nightmares like that to be averted and peace maintained. God only knows how many Chinua Achebe-like poet-writers will surface in the wake of political strife going on all over the world.

M: Dude! The poet-author died today at 82!

D: Man! We don’t want American Colonialism and an influx of Christianity in the Middle East care of 

the United States of America!

M: Dude! That’s why we cannot cling to the military theories of the past and must embrace a far more inclusive community of countries focused on Democracy.