Tenth Anniversary of Terrible Error

On the ten year anniversary, the  American media are currently  discussing the outcome of American intervention into the domestic affairs of Iraq.

It cost 10 billion dollars of borrowed money.

There is no peace order or security in the land. 

Seldom are  young American lives lost  mentioned. Or the plight of those who  came home suffering physical and emotional trauma from what they witnessed. Or the lives of families of men ,little more than boys ,who paid the ultimate price. 

At the time the U.S. was mustering other nations, France refused to join them.

As did Canada. Jean Chretien owed his back to back majority to that decision. 

Messrs  Rumsfeld and Cheney had some scathing things to say about the French. Removing the term "french fries" from menus was contemplated.

The French have memories. As do the Belgians. And the British.
Algiers, French Indo-China, Belgian Congo, Kenya, Kikuyu. Mau-Mau, all names that conjure history of atrocity.

The British exited  Palestine at midnight, leaving tanks and weapons in the streets for whoever might wish to make use of them.

Palestinian refugees are still refugees.

 Israel has little more security now than she did then.

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Sandra Day O'Connor, first woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, was a guest on Charlie Rose again last night.

She referred once more to the appalling fact American children are  not taught civics in school.  How their government works is not considered of sufficient importance to teach.

The retired Chief Justice has taken it upon herself, using  social media and a team of  excellent teachers, to design computer games 
to stimulate  young people's interest in the nation's history. 

Thousands of children are learning what schools are not teaching .

The numbers are growing. 

The government can put them into uniform, teach them how to kill, send them to barren places  to  lay down their lives.

But the government chooses not to tell them why.