until it’s blue in the face

Anger, protest and revolt. Things are still as they have always been.

Peace signs, peace songs….and peace icons. Then, revolt turns to retreat.

Yoko Ono now crowd-sources “My Mom is Beautiful” on Facebook Page.

Back to the basics. Back to the wombs that carried us: safe and secure.

Your Mom is beautiful. Iranian and American moms are both beautiful.

So were Vietnamese moms who carried their child wounded by napalm, or tossed them down from the chopper in the hope that the 7th fleet crew could catch and carry him/her to a better life in America.

Anger, protest and revolt..until it’s blue in the face. Things are still the same i.e. war triggers the economy, (military) spending and needed distraction.

Our neuro responses often fall into 3 camps: make it happen, wait for it to happen, or ask “what happened”.

Same old play book: “fait accompli” or “hail marry”.

It’s not the drone. It’s not the tanker. It’s the ready playbook.

Pull it off the shelves, put your finger on the page: there it is.

Call the shot. Joe Pa. Ignore the rumors. Handle the uprising, protest, anger.

Then kick the can down the road.

We only live once, perhaps presiding over one single term.

So let’s do it. Short-term approach, long-term consequences.

Let the mothers of the world worry about putting their children on the ground.

My Mom is beautiful. Theirs are ugly.

Oil is desirable but pushing them V8s to the gas line is not ( 73, 79).

Memories of war are now faded but sweating and waiting (and smoking) at busy gas stations ain’t cool. Like a child writes on the tablet, then erases it. And starts again. We’ll do it swiftly so as to avoid another “Vietnam”.

Do it so quickly, preferably over-night with press black-out (this time, not CNN, but FOX). No anger, protest or revolt. They can tweet all they want later, 140 characters at a time …until it’s blue in the face. (He called off “to save 150 lives). Give him 150- characters tweeting privilege as a reward.