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I hate this place.
Bitter bitter bitter. Tired.
Tired of spending all my time knee-deep in sewage, trying to push the stuff back up the pipe with a plunger. We arrest guys, then watch them be released in a week, or a month. Handing wads of cash to guys we know are going home and firing rockets at us. Pouring out endless streams of blood and treasure here for a country that has been a cesspit, is a cesspit, and will remain a cesspit.
Right now, we're in the midst of "success". There's been an election only mildly ridden with fraud and violence. And now its only going to take another 3 or 4 months before they can seat a coalition government of factions that hate each other. So we can merrily trip along to right where we were in 2008. Or if they screw up the government formation and exclude the Sunnis, right back to the not-at-all-a-religious-civil-war we had in 2006-7.
When I groused about our revolving door detentions, my CPT asked me where my optimism had gone. Without a second thought I replied "It died in October 2005." "Was that the first time you saw this thing with prisoners?" "That was the first time I buried a friend."
Attempts at re-firing my optimism were then left alone.
I am so tired of this place. My daughter is learning to walk, and I'm missing it. For this place.
Angry, tired, bitter, cynical. Now back at it. That post won't walk itself.
Bitter bitter bitter. Tired.
Tired of spending all my time knee-deep in sewage, trying to push the stuff back up the pipe with a plunger. We arrest guys, then watch them be released in a week, or a month. Handing wads of cash to guys we know are going home and firing rockets at us. Pouring out endless streams of blood and treasure here for a country that has been a cesspit, is a cesspit, and will remain a cesspit.
Right now, we're in the midst of "success". There's been an election only mildly ridden with fraud and violence. And now its only going to take another 3 or 4 months before they can seat a coalition government of factions that hate each other. So we can merrily trip along to right where we were in 2008. Or if they screw up the government formation and exclude the Sunnis, right back to the not-at-all-a-religious-civil-war we had in 2006-7.
When I groused about our revolving door detentions, my CPT asked me where my optimism had gone. Without a second thought I replied "It died in October 2005." "Was that the first time you saw this thing with prisoners?" "That was the first time I buried a friend."
Attempts at re-firing my optimism were then left alone.
I am so tired of this place. My daughter is learning to walk, and I'm missing it. For this place.
Angry, tired, bitter, cynical. Now back at it. That post won't walk itself.