Postured into the future

As General Patton might have said, "What the hell does ‘postured into the future mean’ when spoken by a military man?" What I hear today in no way resembles what might have been said in this politically correct and post-rational world. Why has the past as an inspiration for future improvements and greatness been forgotten? Home health care has been outsourced to government funded programs. No infrastructure or charitable project can proceed without a government grant. Emotion detached from common sense and the golden mean runs rampant, gloriously evidenced now with the death of an iconic, quasi-talented and disturbed deviant, Michael Jackson.

So our mission in Iraq is "postured in the future," according to a spokesman for the military. And our President, who can ‘speak’ only from pre-recorded messages over a tele-prompter, often relies on his spokesman to deliver his statements. Patton triumphed in a lost world where honest thought lived itself out honestly, even though it sometimes involved posturing. But what you saw of Patton was what you got publicly and privately. The duplicity and dishonesty we see and get in this insane American culture today please him who postures in the future to claim many lost, damned souls for his own.