One major lesson Bush has taught the international community with his Iraqi adventure is: "never disarm."Because
if you do you'll end up like Saddam, who hoped that if he followed the
dictates of the UN and stripped himself of his WMD he would be allowed
to stay in power. And then when we decided we wanted to depose him
anyway, he didn't have any weapons to afford him leverage. If he'd
actually HAD a nuclear capability (like Iran and N. Korea) and credibly
threatened to use it, let's face it, we would have had to leave him alone!
Other
countries watching Saddam's experience understand what happened, and it
sure as hell didn't make us any safer. In fact, it dramatically
increased the likelihood of international nuclear proliferation.
Not
to mention that Bush's machinations and his patently illegal invasion
add fuel to Osama's arguments that the US is an evil, imperialistic
nation that lies, cheats and steals to get what it wants. The Great Satan, indeed.
You know what? I
want to live in the country of my childhood idealism again, when I
could believe that if we weren't actually being the Good Guys
everywhere at all times, we were still Good enough that we hadn't
illegally invaded another country for reasons that the whole world
knows to be utterly specious. Worse, we
continue to brazen it out without a hint of apology, blithely
pretending we're on a white horse even as we're standing in shit up to
our shinbones.
And we'll get away with our disgusting
hypocrisy for a while because we're the international Massa these days.
Other countries have to approach us shufflin' and jivin', nodding and
grinning... "Yassa, yassa, America, yassa, you da boss..." But notice
the acid hatred burning behind their eyes. Remember what they learned
from Saddam.
That fuckweed in the White House has
not only done wrong in America's name, he's done it SHAMELESSLY. He has betrayed America's very soul.
I can only hope that we aren't requited as we deserve.
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