Adventures in My Mind
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Sep 10, 2007
Remembrance and Villany
If only for the remembrance of the dead, tomorrow is a solemn day. I, like you, have worked hard to minimize the crippling grief of watching the instantaneous deaths of thousands unfold on cable news. As if an asthmatic, my breath came in short bursts with precious little oxygen to keep my heard free from confusion. Seeing was not believing, and believing was just not possible. We were all united in despair.
After the initial shock, however, the camps began to divide. On the right rose screams of outrage of an unprovoked attack and a new "WAR ON TERROR!" On the left rose questions about what we might have done to provoke such evil and a call to rethink our political schemes. And, of course, the backroom plans for finishing the job in Iraq came to the fore.
And so today Gen. Patraeus gives us the "progress" report of where we are 6 years later and 5 years into an unjust war.
Here is what we know:
- As long as you act like you know what you are doing and killing some foreigners in the process, a large portion of Americans will support you regardless of your effectiveness (or sanity).
- Illegitimacy breeds illegitimacy.How can any action taken by this administration be sound given the way in which it rose to power?
- Yes, you can create a mess so huge that there literally is no valid way to fix it.
- There is no moral or ethical depth that will go unplumbed for the sake of ideology and the maintenance of the status quo. See Carl Rove and the new Democratic Congress.
- Political calculus is a zero sum game that only benefits those who play it. The rest of us suffer the consequences.
As for me, I'm still crippled by grief, since joined by anger and contempt, that this country is being led by treacherous cowards who are incapable of measuring the value of ideas or action without first determining the net profit.
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