Thursday, August 25, 2005

It's going to be a gorgeous day...

Today will be beautiful. No comments on other blogs; my la vie needs some c'est. No looking for more jobs; my hope needs some rest. But first...

John Bolton has wasted no time in placing a looking glass at the entrance to the UN. Suffice it to say that the very idea that he or his superiors are seriously interested in transparency or accountability is a laugh. The most secretive, unaccountable administration in my living memory (which I grant is only a little more than a generation) wants to build consensus? They want human rights violators to be kept off a human rights panel in the wake of overseeing a military that they refuse to open to the same standards as most other nations by joining the International Criminal Court.
"Another piece of cake, Misters Bolton and Bush, or do you need time to eat the piece you already have?" Of course, they are concerned that it would expose American troops to "frivolous" charges. No doubt, we wouldn't want the world to harsh on the frivolity of disappearing people or torturing them; that's just good times, right Mr. President?

In some alternate dimension, the cosmic punishment for such disingenuous double-talk and boldfaced cynicism is to be rent in two by the victims of said retardation of frank rationality.

Oh, and just to join today's bandwagon: The newest post hoc rationalization for the invasion of Iraq, since the first 46 have apparently been discarded in the face of reality (i.e., facts, evidence---in other words, people who uterly fail to understand even the simplest fundamental tenets of evolutionary biology can stop reading right here). The new and improved post-tense is to stare into our collectively infected bellybutton, surrender to fascination over the emotion of sorrow, and send more young men and women into and to man the people-shredder that the Bush administration has made Iraq.

And before anybody whips out their pointer finger to cry, "Saddam bad! G-nash g-nash!" let it be remembered that it was the first two Reagan administrations that were instrumental in ensuring Hussein's seat in power. Any Iraqi or American blood must be washed from, for example, Donald Rumsfeld's hands before I hear one word about the supposed justification of invading a second-and-a-half-world dictatorship; straw men don't count.


TODAY'S Question: If brutal dictators are so bad, and America is so good, how come we've created, supported, or otherwise assisted them so much since the advent of American Colonialism? Could it be a Cat's Cradle scenario? I suppose we'd have to ask the parties in question, but then, the wizards always have been chicken$%!+ about coming out from behind the machine. That's why we have White House press secretaries. Imagine: If, say, an American corporation screwed another, and the CEO of the screwee showed up at the screwer's headquarters, how might the screwee react if the only contact conferred on him or her (oh, who am I kidding? Him) was an audience with the screwer's secretary?

1 Comments:

Blogger Myconfidence said...

See, Leonard? You can post comments here...whoowatt!? Whawut? Okayyy...

August 29, 2005 at 2:19 PM  

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