Saturday, June 23, 2007

“Hypocrisy is the lubricant of society.” Richard Hull

Okay, can we just cut the crap for a few minutes and look at things objectively here? In my previous blog I mentioned the feelings of deja vu I got watching CNN yesterday, leading us up to another winless war.

Some general was having a hissy fit. Why? Because, he claimed, Iranians are training some of the Iraqi insurgents. Now, after our lead-up to war with Iraq, I don't know how much of this shit to take as fact and how much is neocon's greasing our blood lusting passions to bomb another country back to the Stone Age. But assuming Iranians are training some of the Iraqis, what's the big deal with that?

What about the School of the Americas in Georgia where the US has been training insurgents to rain torture and insurrection throughout Latin America for the past sixty years? I don't imagine the general has any problems with that. I'm guessing only when it's Americans getting shredded as a result of such insurrectionist training does it become totally unacceptable, right?

Another report by some US general in the war zone denied the US is supplying weapons to the Sunnis who have attacked our soldiers. Again, with little but the US military and the White House for sources, CNN--with no any investigative reporters on the ground there apparently --has little choice but to report this as fact. But given our nation's love for providing arms to anyone with a cause we favor, like killing Shiites--even if it costs some American soldiers their lives--what's the big deal with that, right?

But that was a lead-in story to the pictures of six rockets lined up in some Baghdad schoolyard waiting to be lobbed at us. Their source? Iran, of course. Just imagine, the communist Chinese, or almost as bad, Putin's Russians with an army of a 160,000 making chaos just over our border in Mexico or Canada. Might the US not be tempted to supply insurgent Mexicans or Canadians with some training and weapons? Certainly our history to do so goes way back.

Why hell, we're not even above supplying WMD's to some very unsavory characters. Like Sadam Hussein for example. Sadam whose image by the way is being resurrected among Iraqis as preferential to that of their current leader, George Bush or "Big Dick" cheney (who's really in charge there is hard to say.)

So, as so often is the case with conservative hypocrisy, it's easy to call the kettle black when you're speaking from the pot. But reverse roles and it's easy to see our "yes men" hissy fit generals in Iraq hollering, "FOUL!" need to pull their heads out of the sanctimonious asses in the White House. American troops are dying in greater and greater numbers for nothing.

Let me say that again, "for NOTHING!" while the September surge evaluation, as we're now beginning to hear, will have to be extended "until next March" before we can assess the progress of all these additional dead American troops.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dada, I for one, always prefer to look at things objectively & you provide much objectivity here. At the end of this mess, what is the BEST we can hope for? I can only see us slinking out in the middle of the night with some number less than 50K troops dead (so that Vietnam remains the top unsupported-by-the-american-people war), some unknown number of foreign mercenaries dead (but still enough remaining to quell insurections here at home), some unknowable number of iraqis dead (but definitely many more than Saddam extinguished), and hatred for america that will not subside for generations. That's the BEST. The worst outcome is beyond my comprehension.

However, I think the energy gang would disagree that it's all for NOTHING. Why, the profits they've reaped already are beyond measure, always assuming human life has no value. At times like these, I like to remember the simple inventions that changed the world & hope some genius is working on an unpatentable source of free energy as this very moment. Oh, and that we can trust our news sources to inform of the invention. ~~ D.K.

Dada said...

If you're into conspiracies, d.k., they've already come up with a number of alternative energies (to include free), but the time is not right. Not yet. And those who tried to show the world the way, mysteriously vanished.

This is nothing more than the shit we read about re wars over the theft of dwindling resources. What amplifies it is one of the most obscene concepts of capitalism (which will eventually implode upon the very system it robs). In a word, that concept is "profit".

(I say that tenuously, knowing you may have been an entrepreneur at sometime in your life.) 8~) But feel free to disagree.

Anonymous said...

No disagreement Dada, none at all (don't be so tenuous). In my world, there are small entrepeneurs and giant entrepensewers & one difference lies in the stench the latter pours out into the public conscience. Your modern small entrepeneur is equivalent to a corp emp'ee who works outside the corp offices of his top clients who reap the benefit of not having to pay him any benefits & the luxury of firing him in favor of a cheaper entrepeneur.

So where did our form of capitalism go wrong? When we adopted free trade vs fair trade? when we eschewed social values for profit? or (as RFK Jr says) as we continue to grant huge subsidies to big-biz & throw any operating burdens back on the taxpayer?

aah re: conspiracies ... I have my hunches, but really don't know anything about mysterious disappearances of alt energy inventions ... though I put nothing past oily power mavens that survive by ensuring the last drop of our cash is wrung out of our pockets just as the last drop of crude plinks out on the dry sands of a dead earth. ~~ D.K.