…over the Middle East
Your Eyewitness is suffering from battle fatigue over the Middle East in general, and – right now – Syria in particular. Gosh!! How long has this “war” been going on? Since the Jews were shipped off to the rivers of Babylon? Now, it’s not that your Eyewitness saw action in any of the wars – starting from the one in 1956 over the Suez Canal – but being a news junkie, he’s got to say, “ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!” There are fellas in their sixties who’ve never known a year of peace in that place.
Your Eyewitness was about to say, “that God-forsaken place” but then realised if billions there and across the globe are correct it’s actually a “God beloved place”. Stealing a line from Casablanca, he wonders – “Out of all dusty places on earth, why exactly did God choose to reveal Himself to not one – but two sets of people in the Middle East”?? But hey!! Could this the reason for the interminable wars? After all, it would seem there’s some dispute if the two Gods are the same, even though they all share some common stories of their origin and all that.
Maybe it’s something like we in Guyana have been hearing about – the “oil curse”. This story goes that even though you may think with oil always in demand and pulling in US greenbacks, it can actually become a curse since everyone “throws back”, neglect other ways of making money. The next thing you know you become like Venezuela with the largest reserves of oil in the world but don’t have money to buy a loaf of bread. And you’ve got to come to GUYANA to get bread!!! Now that’s a curse, if there ever was one!! So maybe when you have too many Gods, it’s a curse also??
Well anyhow, your Eyewitness got distracted – but that’s par for the course when you’re battle fatigued. Kinda like PTSD. What got your Eyewitness worked up was Trump’s decision to bomb Syria. Now here it was this was the same Trump who opposed Obama flirting with that idea – and in the campaign, was one of his major differences with Hillary Clinton.
Not that your Eyewitness thought Trump was actually going to be a PEACENIK, but with him being so chummy with Putin and Putin backing Assad and all, he was hoping at least for a RESPITE. But no such luck. We’ll never know who actually used the nerve gas on those poor civilians – cause now it doesn’t matter.
Or was Trump actually just pulling one over us during the campaign? And he’s actually a WARNIK?
…on constitutional change
Another subject that makes your Eyewitness all skittish and fidigety and stuff, is this (interminable) talk about “constitutional change”. This has been going on as long as the Middle East wars. Well maybe not to the days of Babylon – but certainly to the fifties when Jagan and Burnham got their buktas in a knot when the British changed the Constitution and threw them out!
Anyhow when it was time to get their own Constitution from Britain, the PPP didn’t go up to London because they thought it wasn’t cricket way the British had eased them out of power in 1964. Stephen Campbell of the Amerindians went up with Burnham and came back with a promise for title to all the lands on which they lived.
But this reminds your Eyewitness as to why Burnham’s followers, who’re all het up about the Amerindians getting land, never blames him for not getting title to all that land they’d cleared and drained as slaves?
But back to the subject? Does constitutional change matter? Oh tedium!
…on Parking Meters?
It’s clear the Administration’s hoping to induce battle fatigue in the MAPM protesters. Will they be able to keep up their energy level after three months of ennui?
Or become antsy like your Eyewitness?
