why
Why do I keep seeing the same thing week after week, month after month?The president's speech yesterday: "we will fight until this enemy is defeated."
I have a question. It's one I've heard and read before, and one I deeply look to in these times of bullshit from the president. At the risk of boring you, I ask again: How do you know when this enemy is defeated?
It isn't cartoon land, where at a little hut out in the desert a white flag goes up and we all throw a barbecue, play some loud American rock and roll, chant USA a bunch of times, and compare ourselves to the people who fought and died so we could be in a free country. (Sadly, we aren't that brave. They would never have tolerated the term "terror".) Solving the problem of "terror" is going to take some means that we are currently not employing. It's going to take a more complex approach, and it involves throwing the oil barons out of power, ours and theirs.
Terrorism isn't going to stop. The only way to end the war on terror is to stop fighting it. Terror exists between your ears. Peace can be achieved by the acceptance of the world as it is, and there are some very pissed off people in the world. We can deal with them just like we always have, on a case by case basis, as need be. Deploy a military force whose mission is clear. Find the bad guys. I love it. But shit, man, Iraq? They didn't even do anything to us. That was the Saudis. And not even Saudis representative of their government. Fringe idealists. Utopians. People whose only identifying characteristic is inside their head where it can't be seen. Lots of people have that weakness, and it's one of my proudest accomplishments that I'm not one of them. One more reason I espouse forming your own belief system from the ground up. (Which is really evil and gets you sent to hell, I know, Christians. Piss off.)
I feel like I have to keep repeating this to keep from going crazy. America's foreign and domestic policies are two more planes that have been hijacked by the Bush administration, and a religious fundamentalist in the cockpit does not a pleasant landing make.
You think we can have peace when this is over? It's never going to be over.
But the war on terror isn't about peace ever getting here. It's about the people in charge getting to do whatever they want, indefinitely. And Americans don't give a shit as long as Wal-Mart has low prices. Meanwhile soldiers continue to wage war on civilians in Iraq, guaranteeing there will be terrorists for generations to come. It's pathetic and I want no part of it.
Bush Vows to Fight Until Terrorists' Defeat - New York Times
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