Posters
“What if they had a war and nobody came?”
Excuse me whilst I wax poetic. I remember the opening quote from a very popular poster that could be found almost everywhere during the 1960’s. For the thousands of younger people who read this, the 1960’s was a time before the younger generation felt compelled to get their catchy slogans permanently tattooed on their still elastic skin and simply hung it on their wall. The whole tattoo thing didn’t really catch in until “Keep On Truckin” became the mantra of the day. Today there are a plethora of mid 50’s to early 60 year olds walking around with the Robert Crumb character that probably trucked to nether regions years ago.
I recall that even as a young man I found the “nobody came” antiwar poster to be about as stupid as it was sappy. The obvious premise of the poster was that if nobody fought there would be no war. It sounds like a pretty simple plan unless you let that damned reality into the equation. The real phrase should have been “What if you had a war and only one side fought?” That’s a little more realistic and has a completely different outcome.
Unfortunately that is the direction our country appears to be heading. We are about to inaugurate the most inexperienced human being to ever take up residence on Pennsylvania Avenue who appears to believe that if we just don’t play the bad guys will take their ball and go home. With the exception of Robert Gates as Defense Secretary the new president has filled his cabinet posts with politically motivated leftists that will most assuredly abandon every policy and tactic that has kept this country safe from a post 9-11 attack and replace them with a pacifist wish list based on the unfortunate misconception that diplomacy is the solution to death threats.
The Chosen One recently chose Eric Holder as his Attorney General even though Holder approved the wall of silence between intelligence agencies during the Clinton administration causing the fatal flaws in information gathering that allowed terrorists to fly planes into buildings. If that is not proof enough of his short sightedness Holder was also the lead protagonist in getting then President Clinton to pardon murderous members of the Puerto Rican terrorist group FALN.
Serving under Holder will be BHO’s newest pick of Dawn Johnsen as head of the Office of Legal Counsel in the Justice Department. Johnsen has been a demanding that the U.S. close Guantanamo Bay since the U.S. opened Guantanamo Bay. She has also consistently claimed that the U.S. was involved in illegal and torturous acts in its treatment of some of the most dangerous killers on the planet.
Couple these two picks with Hillary Clinton doing his bidding as Secretary of State and Leon Panetta doing God knows what as head of the CIA and you’ve got all the makings for an Al Qaida sweep in the recent election.
I was recently reminded of the extreme measures the U.S. undertook to keep the country safe from the Russians and Chinese during the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. The pacifist poster printers were talking about a war that nobody would attend but fortunately our presidents and congress were a little more realistic. The threat is no less real today than it was then. What scares me is that the poster printers are now in charge of our defense and a snappy sappy slogan just ain’t gonna cut it.
But if you’re looking for the new poster slogan anyway I may be able to help.
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