Daily Kos: Sinking Beneath the Power of the Iraqi Nightmare
Perhaps the most disturbing headline caught over the weekend – disturbing because I passed it over nonchalantly on first read – was this: Iraqis to lead assault to take back Baghdad. Yeah, yeah, yeah, my brain registered. Just more acknowledgment of havoc in Baghdad. But transpose this headline to the western hemisphere and imagine “Americans to lead assault to take back Washington D.C.” Then imagine yourself shrugging and turning the page.
That’s how powerful and numbing this particular nightmare has become – “retaking” the major city in a country is merely one piece of news over a weekend.
Indeed – can you imagine an invading force in this country and Americans being used to retake our cities? It’s just beyond ridiculous. Yet that is the reality of Iraq.
We need to get out.
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All of this is so depressing and I don’t see any way out of mire. And I guess we did an air attack in Somalia to get some Al Qaeda guys. And on and on. So much for peace. I got a kick out of your comment about moving away from your husband and kids. Lord, it does sometimes seem like the only answer, doesn’t it?
Actually we do need to re take Washington DC still. Our freedom is still up for grabs.
It’s time to reign in the corporate power shadow government.
*sigh*
on a happier note
Happy new year Donna!
Thanks, Casey!
Yeah, well, we’ve made a start on Washington. The problem is it doesn’t matter anymore who is nominally in charge. We’ve set out on a course that leads to disaster, and we can’t stop it. The time to turn all this around was in the 70s, and we didn’t do it then. I felt great sadness when Carter lost the presidency, and never really understood why at the time. Now I do – it meant the beginning of the end of America as a great nation. When a good man with his heart in the right place was beaten out by a B-movie actor, the country took a terrible wrong turn. And we haven’t looked back since, til now it seems. We finally see ourselves in Vietnam all over again, with global warming looming on the horizon, and now, now we say, “oops”.
Too late. We always wake up too late to change course.
The problem isn’t the shadow government – it’s the stupidity of the general population, and the fact that most of them really don’t give a shit, as long as their own personal needs are satisfied. That is America’s problem.