It's clear to me
that the debate over targeted murder, execution, and assassination of America's
"enemies" is full of a great many contradictions. Not the least of
which is, why so many persons I once knew (and a great many more I never did)
who once were opposed to the Vietnam War are so reticent, silent, and approving
of the current administration and its policies.
I guess it's
because they want to keep on believing that this president is, actually, a nice,
friendly human being who only seeks
peace and love and harmony between nations. In my mind he's done nothing of the
sort. His real legacy is the thousands of shattered lives, the blown-off arms,
legs, hands, feet, and heads of at least 175 innocent children and several
thousands more adults. The ruined lives of mothers, sisters, husbands,
brothers. The only thing different about the innocent hundreds of thousands
slain in Vietnam under Johnson and Nixon (and Ford) and the thousands done to
death by drones in Pakistan and Afghanistan is the magnitude of numbers, and
the ethnicity and skin color. The people who look different across the river
are still dying for being the people
across the river who look different. It isn't going to help them like us any more or any better, y' think?
The Obama
administration has engaged upon a hazardous and slippery slope, by way of their
utter imbecility when engaged in what Sun Tzu called the Art of War. You might
take this with a grain of salt, coming from a committed lifelong antiwar
zealot, but, no matter how many times soldiers come back from a war to tell the
home crowd "it was all for a heaping pile of stinking bullshit",
still the home crowd cheer and praise and wave the bloody flag: after all they're "our" team. And the leaders
ride the wave of vengeance roughshod over whatever last remaining vestiges of
humanity remain, citing the same old lame cliches about "our national
security" our "sacred" homeland, their "honor and
sacrifice" and blablabla.
How many more
have to die to justify and satisfy the thirst for revenge over 9-11-01?
Let alone the
great incompetents, they couldn't even bring Bin Laden to justice, alive, in
NYC for a trial at the scene of the crime. The leaders have decided we the
American public, like little children, do not deserve to see all the evidence
gathered at the scene of Bin Laden's execution- even as they granted his deepest
desire: martyrdom at the hands of the U.S. Government. Whether or not "the
fog of war" obscured the desire to apprehend and bring before a court of
law the most infamous heinous world actor since...<?> Well, you get the idea. Just
as they did after the assassination of John Kennedy, the powers that be decided
to lock away the full evidence of the event forever. Perhaps because Hif Majeftie and Duchess Clinton have guilty consciences- that the plan to rope in the dragnet ended
with a gunshot and not the slam of a jail cell? Who knows. I cannot speak to nor
fathom the minds of those who claim to represent us.
What I can speak
to is that those who seek high office, in this case, the most powerful office
in the entire world, have sociopathic motives to begin with. Almost my entire
lifetime I have seen nothing but sociopaths elected president- you almost need
to be one, to lust for the Absolute Power that holding this office often
represents. There are two other branches of our government, yes, but if
Republicans most often write unconstitutional
legislation, it seems most often, that Democrats sign
it. Therefore there is hardly any leg for either party to stand on when it
comes to contempt for the Constitution as it was intended- and the Supreme
Court are hardly a worthy recipient of our trust any longer, either. And, more importantly, as Senator Paul asked the other day, "If you happen to be the son of a bad person, is that enough to kill you?" That, I would submit to a candid world, is the $1,000.oo question this president is too cowardly to answer.
You have to be
nuts to want That Job, and whoever does, deserves every grey hair they get. The
legacy of any President, apparently, is a trail of suffering left in their
wake. Here they gave a Nobel Peace Prize to one who did nothing more
extraordinary than get elected! Allen Ginsberg said "All presidents go to a
diamond hell."& the older I get and the more I experience, the more I
believe this is true. Don't ask me for my sympathy, or my vote- I've known too
few years of my lifetime with my nation at PEACE with the rest of the world to believe
you'll do any better. And unless you understand, that killing for peace IS like
fucking for virginity, I'm afraid, you're doomed to several more incarnations
in this hell until you wise up. After
all, you asked for it.
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