Trickle-Down Cowboy Diplomacy
It seem that the "mandate" for Cowboy Diplomacy, delivered by questionable election results, has trickled down to the soldiers on the battlefield! It is doubtful that the Marine, who killed the wounded and unarmed Iraqi in the Mosque, did so without believing it would be acceptable! The same can be said for the Abu Ghraib fiasco. And where, pray tell, might these notions have come from?
You guessed it... The Top!
The Repugnicant Party ran, by far, the dirtiest, most ethics free, and underhanded campaign that this country has ever seen! (Although, I have no doubts that I will have to revise this statement in four years.) And, in the previous four years, Bush made it clear that this administration has no respect for: The Geneva Convention, the sovereignty of other nations, the authority of the United Nations, world opinion, our own Constitution and Bill of Rights, basic human rights, or the citizens of this (or any other) country!
With such blatant disregard, by our "leaders", for established rules of conduct, is it any wonder that our children soldiers, at the front, display the same bankruptcy of ethics and contempt for human decency? They are simple doing what they believe is expected of them by their "superiors"! Even without the "piss-poor" examples, set by those in command, it is ludicrous to put young men and women in an insane situation, such as war, and expect them to continue to act sanely!
I have no doubt that this latest "shoot-em-up" horror is a direct result of subtly expressed expectations from the top! The fire of world hatred, fanned by the winds of arrogance in our cowboy led government, has just received a big splash of gasoline! And, sadly true to form, an inexhaustible supply of gasoline is waiting in the wings to be poured on other fires, with the same moronic expectation that more gas will put them out!
So, until we can unseat our Cowboy Prez from the horse called America, we continue to ride, full speed, toward World War III. But, in this war, we are what the world will attempt rid itself of!
Thanks a lot, Dubya!
You guessed it... The Top!
The Repugnicant Party ran, by far, the dirtiest, most ethics free, and underhanded campaign that this country has ever seen! (Although, I have no doubts that I will have to revise this statement in four years.) And, in the previous four years, Bush made it clear that this administration has no respect for: The Geneva Convention, the sovereignty of other nations, the authority of the United Nations, world opinion, our own Constitution and Bill of Rights, basic human rights, or the citizens of this (or any other) country!
With such blatant disregard, by our "leaders", for established rules of conduct, is it any wonder that our children soldiers, at the front, display the same bankruptcy of ethics and contempt for human decency? They are simple doing what they believe is expected of them by their "superiors"! Even without the "piss-poor" examples, set by those in command, it is ludicrous to put young men and women in an insane situation, such as war, and expect them to continue to act sanely!
I have no doubt that this latest "shoot-em-up" horror is a direct result of subtly expressed expectations from the top! The fire of world hatred, fanned by the winds of arrogance in our cowboy led government, has just received a big splash of gasoline! And, sadly true to form, an inexhaustible supply of gasoline is waiting in the wings to be poured on other fires, with the same moronic expectation that more gas will put them out!
So, until we can unseat our Cowboy Prez from the horse called America, we continue to ride, full speed, toward World War III. But, in this war, we are what the world will attempt rid itself of!
Thanks a lot, Dubya!
posted by Dave Gaston @ 10:29 AM
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