Sunday, April 15, 2007
Misspent Capital
201k are not peace-niks. There -- we said it.
We love John Lennon. A lot. And "Give Peave a Chance" is a great idea.
It only works, though, if everyone embraces it. And, sadly, that's not the world we live it. We live in a hockey world, which means: sometimes you have to send in the goons. Otherwise the other guy will run your goalie all night.
It was perfectly natural -- and proper -- for Americans to want to respond to 9/11. The desire to respond, combined with the will to prevent a reccurance, was human. It was right. It was natural.
But George Bush hijacked that desire, that emotional capital, and used it to fulfill an ideological agenda in Iraq. He spared no effort trying to convince Americans that this agenda was in fact the response to 9/11, bending and in some cases inventing wholecloth the truth, while never (well, rarely) lying outright.
9/11 created emotional capital. George Bush took it and spent it somewhere else.
When will he, and his enablers in the media, pay for this horrible, horrible act?
When?
We love John Lennon. A lot. And "Give Peave a Chance" is a great idea.
It only works, though, if everyone embraces it. And, sadly, that's not the world we live it. We live in a hockey world, which means: sometimes you have to send in the goons. Otherwise the other guy will run your goalie all night.
It was perfectly natural -- and proper -- for Americans to want to respond to 9/11. The desire to respond, combined with the will to prevent a reccurance, was human. It was right. It was natural.
But George Bush hijacked that desire, that emotional capital, and used it to fulfill an ideological agenda in Iraq. He spared no effort trying to convince Americans that this agenda was in fact the response to 9/11, bending and in some cases inventing wholecloth the truth, while never (well, rarely) lying outright.
9/11 created emotional capital. George Bush took it and spent it somewhere else.
When will he, and his enablers in the media, pay for this horrible, horrible act?
When?
