Bush Dangerous? - 2006

Bush Dangerous?

Should we beware the little guy is incidentally transforming America into the evil empire? War is the only answer for Bush, it seems, and torture and human debasement are now o.k. parts of the deal, and tools of the trade. What a great fall from the lofty aspirations of a Christian.

If George’s answer, for America, is to kill people in foreign lands, for any purpose, how could the result be anything other than people from those foreign lands coming to American soil to show reciprocal disrespect for America’s own collateral damage? That’s what 9/11 was all about, a demonstration of the causative effect of an American foreign policy that displays a diminished respect for individual life in foreign lands.

Pretend doesn’t cut it in the real world, George, America’s got to stop killing people anywhere, for any purpose. Police the world, please. But bear each human life, in each country of the world, as equal to that of an American life. Protect foreign lives as if they were all Americans lives. That would be equality.

One can’t even imagine the response, in America, to an American military taking out terrorist cells, in America cities, with air missile strikes, bombs, and tanks? American collateral lives would always be too precious for that, wouldn’t they? Why would this be acceptable anywhere else?

We believe that George means well, and truly believes he can, personally, physically wrestle any Middle Eastern country into democratic submission, but is he really achieving that? Or is he simply creating and inspiring generations of future freedom fighters to continue a campaign of deadly demonstrations as ongoing invitation, to America, to just go home?

That brings us to oil, which is really why America is busy creating democracy in the particular country of Iraq. George wants, and apparently needs pretty bad, on America’s behalf, many points of secure physical access to Middle Eastern oil. Atrocities, of staggering human damage, multiplied by ridiculous factors in comparison to Saddam’s influence, continue elsewhere in the world, in areas where no oil can be found, and none have inspired an American intervention invasion in the slightest.

George seems to feel an American need to install democracy, and incidental American air force bases, in oil rich countries, and wherever possible, in order to surreptitiously secure guaranteed future supplies of oil, for America. That ongoing need for secure access to oil is the real inspiration for the entire Saddam campaign, and is why George has undertaken, to his perceived American advantage, to liberate Iraq. America can be proud it has an oil man at the helm, steering America to a secure future.

Secure, that would be, foreseeing any more abdications, such as that of Iran, which reversed its friendship with America and the Shah was forced to flee when fundamentalist freedom fighters (yes, freedom from America) succeeded in kicking American influence out of their country.

Rhetoric emanating from Iran these days may be dramatically senseless, but the underlying sentiment and unspoken ideology should be clear. Iran and its people don’t want an American presence in Iran, or in their area of the world. Yes, that was in their country. And yes, it is their world, too.

One can see that the whole nuclear thing is not really going to work out very well for Iran, though. All George really needs is a good excuse to liberate another oil country, especially one that’s already slipped away for a while. Iran’s loud and vociferous ‘death to Israel’ chant is just going to accelerate the liberation process. No wonder Iraq’s leaders want some nukes, and fast.

Meanwhile, the mess gets messier every day over there, judging by the body count, and America is just not getting the message. Air installations and the military are digging in deep, while more demonstrations of defiance occur daily. Funny how officials can spew empty words of success in the field, when the body counts grow daily in these liberated countries.

Somehow, individual life in the Middle East, and everywhere else in the world, must be elevated in importance to equal that of individual American life. Until America’s boss can grasp that concept, and defend individual importance globally, trouble will continue. America is not more equal than others. Waging war on foreign soil, with acceptable collateral damage, will only invite war to America, with collateral damage acceptable to someone else. Foreign individuals, even many that America may believe to be friendly, will continue to demonstrate, in their incendiary ways, a desire for freedom from America.

America needs a new dialogue, and a new global vision of true individual equality everywhere in the world. The world is desperate for America to find a real global leader, with planetary vision, to champion true peace, in a world extending beyond America. Someone to surrender, for the world’s sake, America’s global military presence and policing duties to an empowered and supported United Nations. Working for peace, and a freedom from bombs, for everyone in the world. Leading a new equality in the world, and inspiring global discourse for planet-wide benefit.

Of course, America might have to lift its hands off some of that oil over there, where it doesn’t have claim, and where America’s military muscle is, quite obviously, not that welcome. Money presently spent on the American military complex should be re-directed to the accelerated development of fuel sources beyond those of the dinosaur age, for America, and for all of us on the planet. Then America wouldn’t need all that oil.

Reducing the size of the military complex might reduce the need for war, as well. Military might is somewhat a fulfilling prophecy, isn’t it?

As it is, America would have been better off to turn the other Christian cheek, as a response to terrorism, and thereby retain global support, than kill so many innocents in supposed campaigns of liberation on foreign soils, and become despised for blatant self-interest. Great presidents of the past must be turning in their graves as America’s golden image of global leadership melts to tar from all the false purpose of these times.

By responding militarily, as perpetrators of great death and destruction, the white wings of America have begun to look pretty grey with the massive accumulation dusts of the dead. Creating the circumstances in Iraq that now enable a civil war must ultimately magnify America’s responsibility as the instigator of the killing there. Would this be America’s Christian example to the world?

Pity all the support nations, dragged into complicity as America’s friends, and mandated to sponge up the mess for America. Forced to brag of growing victories in order to appease the worried folks back home, even as the deadly acts of defiance and opposition increase in frequency and magnitude. Will these friends stay over there for twenty years, or for two hundred years? Will there ever be peace while these foreign lands are under the guns of America and friends?

The most glaring consequence of America's military aggressions abroad would be the general disintegration of peace of mind on the planet. No safety, or security remains anywhere in the world. Toothpaste and shampoo are now considered weapons of mass destruction. And we're fast approaching mandatory full body cavity searches for travel of any kind to anywhere else. Paranoia and fear are epidemic in the new world by George.

A profound sadness, I believe, is also growing deeply within all thinking humans from all the endless and senseless killing. Killing which inspires only more killing, and then back again in retaliation. Mindless killing that never ends. Killing for what purpose? Oil Access? Democracy? Killing is too expensive a price for anything.

Other nations, following the glittering example of America, are making their own punitive military statements to those less equal than themselves. Israel demonstrates a measured response to the kidnapping of two of its soldiers, with something like a total blitzkrieg of military obliteration, leaving Lebanon completely smashed and broken, but all done in self-defence. The deaths inflicted were all acceptable collateral damage to those inflicting.

If America, the supposed leader nation of the free world, can bomb and kill indiscriminately and claim some aloof privilege to do so, why wouldn't others act in similar opportunistic fashion? Sadly, they are. America cannot expect that the world will follow its example only when it shows morality and good judgement.

George can continue to spread his self-righteous message of liberation and democracy till his little head spins. Those foreign freedom fighters will continue to prove him a liar. America did not have the right, or a believable reason, to invade foreign lands, killing indiscriminately. Oil is not an excuse, or a reason.

Nothing could be more important, for the people of any country, than freedom from foreign domination. An American should know that.

How long will they fight over there for their freedom from America? I suspect a long time. They’ve only been fighting foreign occupations now for the past few thousand years.

Will they carry their message to American shores? They already have.

Is George dangerous? You tell me.