I agree. These are real people, real death, real destruction. Racism or no, Americans do not like to see themselves as anything but good and Katrina did not look like "America the Good". I wrote this in May, but I did not remotely envision the horrors of Katrina as the basis of our collective "death bed conversion". I truly hope it does not take something even worse.
Where’s the outrage over a President who intended to wage war from the first days of assuming power?
Liberals have spent the last two years anguishing over the lack of public outcry at the lies and schemes that took us into war. The recent bombshell from the Downing Street Memo, that war had been decided in the summer of 2002, has not generated a peep in the mainstream media. Why, they howl, why?? It’s sad, and ironic, because the answer is at the very roots of liberalism. It is the age-old fight between those who wish to make America truly good, and those who are satisfied with the appearance of good.
Goodness. It is the core belief of every American. We invented self-rule. We freed the slaves. We gave defeated Indians sovereign status and a hundred years of economic assistance. We paid Mexico for land we had won in a war. We liberated whole continents, turned them over to their people, and helped them rebuild. We went toe-to-toe with the Soviets, brought down the Berlin Wall and ended the Cold War. When people want to be free, call on America and we are there. Oh yes, we are brimming with Goodness.
With a benevolent history such as this, what IS the problem with overthrowing a tyrannical dictator anyway? Iraqi’s are voting. Women will have education and financial independence. Oppression based on religious and political affiliation will end. Laws will be written ensuring freedom and justice for all. Iraq will reap the rewards of American Goodness for generations. Silly liberals, it is time for a celebration! Why would you want to muddy up all this Goodness with nonsensical semantics about how or why yet another country was lifted from under the thumb of a tyrannical dictator?
Liberals should truly not be surprised, or even disheartened or discouraged. Our entire history is checkered with wars of aggression, barely disguised as self-defense. Indian Wars. Mexican-American War. Spanish-American War. Philippine War. Vietnam. The appropriate response to the Iraq War would literally require the entire country to undergo a death-bed conversion. It is a tall order, one that our most esteemed clerics and orators have been unable to achieve.
George Washington said, “My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.” And yet, since war is most often cloaked in some phony sense of Goodness, is it any wonder that wars continue.
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