The more things change, the more they stay the same

It’s like Dsert Storm in 1991 all over again. Back then I was a youngin of 14 years of age and what I saw on CNN was awesome to me at the time. Anti-aircraft shells sgoing off in the night sky with the cool green glow of night vision. Patriot missles and scud missiles were words that one would come to learn as the war dragged on. Fast forward to 2003 and it seemed like history was repeating itself as the second Gulf war was under way. This time however the word terrorism was all the rage and the United States, acting as the world police, were there to end the reign of Saddam Hussein, even though he had nothing to do with terrorism or weapons of mass destruction, as the world was led to believe. Fast forward again to 2011 and history is once again repeating itself, so it seems, although in a different land.

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