A NEW SLANT ON IRAQ
Hendrick Hertzberg , in the June 9th, 2003 issue of the New Yorker, offers a stunning yet completely logical interpretation of the Bush Administrations handling of the Iraq occupation.
With chaos reigning in Baghdad , Hertzberg writes " one of the few things that thrives now in Baghdad, at least, is a deepening distrust and anger towards the United States."
The stunning insight Hertzberg offers is that this chaos is by design and that the Bush Administration " doesn't believe in functioning, efficient, reliable services ~ doesn't believe that they should exist, and doesn't believe that they can exist ."
He goes on to say that the Republican leadership " does not believe that society , through the mechanisms of democratic government, has a moral obligation to provide care for the sick, food for the hungry, shelter for the homeless and education for all ; and to the extent that they tolerate such activities they do so grudgingly ~ out of political necessity."
Are we not seeing such behavior manifested in the present " so called " recently passed tax cut ~ where millions of the poor have been cast aside for the needs of the rich.
But here is his brilliant analogy of this Neo-conservative
Republican idealogy in regards to the role of Iraq as a role model for this philosophy ; " In a way, Iraq has become a theme park of conservative policy nostrums .
There are no burdensome government regulations.
Health and safety inspectors and environmental busybodies are nowhere to be seen. The Ministry of finance is a scorched ruin and Museums and other cultural institutions , emptied of their contents, no longer have much use for public subsidies."
Hertzberg brings this all home by defining this administrations domestic policy " as consisting almost solely of a never ending campaign to reduce the taxes of the very rich ."
We must end this co-dependent relationship we have with this administration and stop wishful thinking .
We must face the reality that a small group of neo-conservatives have hijacked our country and its core values ~ and replaced them with their own.
Hertzberg makes the same point in his ending paragraph;" Whatever one may think of the global democratic-imperial ambitions of the present administration, they cannot long co-exist with the combination of narrow greed and public neglect it thinks sufficient for what it is pleased to call the Homeland.
At some point ~the sooner the better ~ a critical mass of
Americans will notice. "
Are you noticing ?
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