or me, these times are not especially painful, nor do
they evoke great personal fear, it is a natural
storm blowing across my path. i saw this coming in the
first 100 days of the current administration. i saw the
tools the president stocked in his cabinet(s). when all
your tools are hammers... all your problems begin to look
like nails and conversely, when all your problems look
like nails, hammers are the first tools you reach for.
The nails have been present for much longer than the past 100 days and they would still look like nails today if we were in Gore's tool shop.
the current president is not as evolved as is the leading
edge of civilization. his worldview is that of earlier
cold war days. he missed the opportunity to participate in,
and see the ultimate global evolutionary significance of
the new information age. he does not have the vision to
see the tremendous opportunity and benefit to our country
and to its individual citizens, that a global community
will bring. the age of international global community, a
global economy and global interdependence are not strong
guiding concepts for him.
How is that?
I never thought I would ever be here trying to defend Shrub, but how has he handled this matter incorrectly.
How has he hindered the global community? World wide recession seems to have done a better job at that than anything Bush could have done to ruin it.
to them it was a powerful opportunity to have their status
raised from crazed individual criminals unsupported by any
recognized government on the planet, a la ted kazinski
or timothy mcveigh, to an internationally recognized
organization of religious believers in a holy war against
whom they perceive as "the great, evil, satanic,
tecnologically advanced but morally bankrupt nations of
the world".
With Gore leading the way, they certainly would have waited 4-8 more years to implement their action.
Patiently waiting for the day for a republican to step in with his "Cold War" mind set.
I'm not too sure about that.
I'm also not very sure Gore would have thwarted off the threats of attack by appeasing Bin Laden, the other terrorist peoples, and changed the world in a manner that suits the morally bankrupt nations.
having seen this coming, i was not unprepared. my hatches
are battened, my course is set for the quickest, safest
heading until it passes... no fighting into the teeth of
the wind, just a hell of a ride for a while until i can
set the new course for the ultimate destination.
I'm glad the firefighters, cops, and rescue workers didn't feel that way.
They saved thousands before allowing themselves to go downstream with the rest of the towers.
Not meant as a cheap shot and it certainly does not imply that you would have not done the same.
However, how can the President tell the families of these heroes that going into Afghanistan is wrong.
Tell them that hunting down the bastards that did this, is wrong.
Instead, perhaps it's better that the president tries to ease the anguish of Barbara Kingsolver as she sits in her easy chair in Tucson, Arizona with her newspaper spread across her lap as she sips iced tea, turns the page and looks at the department store sales advertisements or cheap airline ticket deals.
She's far removed from the Anthrax spores blowin' in the wind.
Probably doesn't know the face of a single person transformed into rubble.
Doesn't have to fear her contemporary western motif home may become reduced to ash.
Put a little fear in her and I'm not quite certain that she would be ready to wait the long period of time that her dream of a peaceful end to this means, may require.
as bob dylan once said, "i don't fight gravity."
I'm glad Bob wasn't a fireman.
I'm also glad we are not using a broom to bang in those nails.
-Clappy |
