from Whatever It Is, I'm Against It
Speaking of the world seeing the strength, grace & decency of our country, I can’t help noticing that we haven’t heard a word from Rummy on the subject of the prisoner execution in Fallujah. Or from Bush. Or from anyone with a familiar name. That incident badly needs a name, to help ensure it doesn’t get swept under the rug. Pending somebody offering a better name, I suggest the alliterative Murder in the Mosque, with apologies to T.S. Eliot. Also, we still haven’t heard from any US member of Congress willing to go on record against the summary execution of wounded prisoners. There was a time when such a shooting bothered people just a little.
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I think the problem is that people really do have short term memories. Because the Bush administration has devolved our culture's ideas of what is normal or acceptable, and it's been gradual enough that people don't realize just how far we have devolved since Clinton was in office.
You remember the good old days when the biggest concern was whether our President was having a fling? But our rights were solid, our economy was solid, our internal and international standing was solid. People weren't attacking us. We weren't murdering thousands people abroad under false pretenses. We weren't torturing anyone. Our communities and schools weren't being underfunded. We weren't saddling future generations with debt. The world community actually liked our President more than we did ourselves. But then why shouldn't they; he actually worked WITH the world.
How quickly people revise their views to fit their prejudices. You talked about historical revisionism. I think that is how the people who voted for Bush were able to do that. Reality has just been revised over the past four years, and we have gone from a confident country to one that is afraid of its own shadow and feels virtuous when it tries to shoot it down.
"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." -- Milan Kundera
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