George W. Bush carries a little stick. He uses it to poke and prod, like a chimp trying to see which termite mound or hornets' nest he can stir up next. When he raises an alarm and makes the population swarm, that's how he likes it.
Whether it's old folk or homosexuals, their agitation makes them an easy target-- to be picked off for his dilection and the satisfaction of his minions.
The Iraqi people obviously know the score. If they're going to be consumed, they're going to inflict a little damage and take some of the invaders with them.
Which raises the question of how much longer Americans are going to put up with being threatened. Isn't it past time for a stinging response to the man with a big swagger and a little stick?
Or are we going to wait until the stick connects with the nuclear button?
The Bush administration is sending death squads into Iraq and special forces into Iran to "prepare the battlefield." Why are they so brazen, stirring up conflicts without reason? Because the same people got away with the same behavior twenty years and more ago. The failure to dismiss them then is what emboldens them.
Whether the neo cons are the heirs of the proponents of "creative destruction," I don't know. Certainly their behavior indicates that they consider destruction to be a good thing--an opportunity to pick up the pieces cheap.
The proponents of this strategy aren't fighting evil, as they claim. They are willing to destroy something good in order to get something better, for themselves--the ability to rule the world.
When George the First proposed the "New World Order," I naively thought he meant that from now on the things people wanted would be bought, instead of stolen. I was wrong. What he meant was that the New World, not old Europe, would order the rest of the world around.
What hubris, to think that five billion people would allow themselves to be bullied by a handful of neo cons. Now that Americans have been fooled twice, how are we going to respond?
Posted by Hannah at January 17, 2005 08:10 AM