Zombiefied
In your head, in your head
They are fightin’!
With their tanks, and their bombs
And their bombs, and their guns
--Zombie, The Cranberries
War is far too horrible a thing
to drag out unnecessarily
--John McCain,
foreward, the Best and the Brightest
Ask not what America can do for you,
but what together we can do for the freedom of man
--John F. Kennedy
________________
It seems the war policies of America are being steered by constructed media images and political posturings. The dual rudders of the ship of state are fear and false patriotism.
We accept Afghanistan as the necessary and good war, and do not question the assumptions that incited the imbroglio. Since these assumptions are assumed to be sacrosanct, and have not been reevaluated, then the continuance of the war by a Democratic president boils down to the basic driver of U.S. political life: The POTUS does not want to appear weak, and especially not weak on terrorism.
However, weakness (or non-aggression) can be a virtue, a fact which escapes those in U.S. political life. Leaders who like to talk tough, but never were required to be tough. Leaders who never dragged a wounded soldier to cover, or crawled across a shit-covered street simply to remain in dead space to avoid being shot.
Leaders who never had frost bite or heat exhaustion, never drank water from a scum-filled bomb crater, never were crippled by bleeding blisters. Never missed a meal or slept in their web gear with a rifle cradled in their arms. Not one suffered what McCain called the human degradations of the battlefield.
But they sure can trash talk some terrorism. If they had any moral courage, they would admit their weakness as factual reality and end the phony wars on terror (PWOT's ©).
The present reality of America is a shadow dream.
They are fightin’!
With their tanks, and their bombs
And their bombs, and their guns
--Zombie, The Cranberries
War is far too horrible a thing
to drag out unnecessarily
--John McCain,
foreward, the Best and the Brightest
Ask not what America can do for you,
but what together we can do for the freedom of man
--John F. Kennedy
________________
It seems the war policies of America are being steered by constructed media images and political posturings. The dual rudders of the ship of state are fear and false patriotism.
We accept Afghanistan as the necessary and good war, and do not question the assumptions that incited the imbroglio. Since these assumptions are assumed to be sacrosanct, and have not been reevaluated, then the continuance of the war by a Democratic president boils down to the basic driver of U.S. political life: The POTUS does not want to appear weak, and especially not weak on terrorism.
However, weakness (or non-aggression) can be a virtue, a fact which escapes those in U.S. political life. Leaders who like to talk tough, but never were required to be tough. Leaders who never dragged a wounded soldier to cover, or crawled across a shit-covered street simply to remain in dead space to avoid being shot.
Leaders who never had frost bite or heat exhaustion, never drank water from a scum-filled bomb crater, never were crippled by bleeding blisters. Never missed a meal or slept in their web gear with a rifle cradled in their arms. Not one suffered what McCain called the human degradations of the battlefield.
But they sure can trash talk some terrorism. If they had any moral courage, they would admit their weakness as factual reality and end the phony wars on terror (PWOT's ©).
The present reality of America is a shadow dream.
________________
Did you ever have to make up your mind?
Pick up on one and leave the other behind
--Did you Ever have to Make up Your Mind?
Lovin Spoonfuls
Pick up on one and leave the other behind
--Did you Ever have to Make up Your Mind?
Lovin Spoonfuls
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Labels: PWOT, terrorism. afghanistan
posted by Lisa at 8:12 PM
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