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23 de Diciembre, 2006
The Days Before It All Went Bad
Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Globalización , Iraq the Casbah , Política Estados Unidos , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: bush, hype, Imperialism, Iraq
AS WE STAND ON THE PRECIPICE OF TRUE DISASTER, I dread to think of the future for Iraq. For troops. For Us. For todo el mundo. I think I understand the power of denial. But I still don't understand how these men and women don't do all in their power to stop this schoolbus from going off the cliff.
This idea of sending more troops—many more troops—with more weapons, with more determination, with more mass to take up more space in every street, with more anger, and especially—with the notion that this is the "Last Shot" that will pay for all—including the war in Vietnam...it is very, very dangerous.
If this is the "Last Shot" that finally determines a major argument that has spanned my entire life; the Last Shot to Save the Middle East from the Dreaded Caliphate; the Last Shot to Secure Affordable Oil; The Last Shot to Kill Them Over There So We Don't Have to See Them Die Here; and the Very Last Shot to save the legacies of Blair, Bush, and the entire Mainstream Media, not to mention the Psychopathic pro-war bloggers whose words barely contain a very offputting and unsophisticated desire for destruction of Other...then you tell me:
What damage to human life has to occur now that could possibly adequately offend people who can look upon today's Iraq as acceptable? What damage would have to happen that would be so heinous that people inured to almost a million deaths—or even 600,000 if you want to sniff a pink rose on your way to the morgue—would say "okay, we failed"? "Time to eat bloated, bleeding, infected, gut-rotten crow. Time to lose arguments for another generation."
See, here's the problem with a Last Shot so Large. Here's the problem with Overtime, with Rematch, with Sudden Death: You give it everything you've got.
And haven't we been doing that already? If not, why the hell not? And if so...then what the Hell are we about to unleash on the citizens of Iraq? And how can that make the world more peaceful, our reputation stronger, or future suicide bombers less effective when converting new recruits? And how can that be ignored by the rest of the world?
Does anyone else feel like we are about to walk into something horrifically, unforeseeably, historically regrettable?
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kick it, ése.