Posts Tagged ‘Afghani poverty’

Listening to the news this weekend in between bouts of harvesting various berries to make the last of the jellies and jams of the year, a phrase caught in my mind like pine needles in my hair.

“If Obama becomes President, one of his biggest tasks will be defending America against another terrorist attack.”

Not to sound like Saturday Night Live too entirely, but REALLY??!

Seriously?  Is this brand of bullshit going to go on being sold forever?  Why are journalists still doing this, still applying the carnuba wax to the George Bush assiness of American life?  Go on, you hacks, you must want to do a Rudy and just scream “911!!” with all the amplification your station can maintain.

With the election so close and the markets of the world tumbling like jacks tossed by five year olds, isn’t it time for some truth?  Isn’t it time to say that if America stopped acting like a  swaggering bully in the world, the rest of the world would be happy to ignore us for the peace of being left the hell alone BY us?  Especially those terrorist places where we keep launching missiles that kill civilians, for instance?

Oh, and the starving Afghan farmers who are selling their eight year old daughters to live another month, and planting poppies in desperation—do you really think they are capable of launching the attack they might like upon us?   Some provinces of Afghanistan may see 80% of the population DIE this winter of hunger and exposure.  And our journalists and some politicians are beating the exhausted and dying horse of “another terrorist attack”?

Give me a break.  Al Queda wants McCain elected, his continued policies reeking of imperialism and stupidity validate their position as heroes of the Islamic world being put under an American boot.  FDR had it right, folks, the only thing we really have to fear IS fear itself.  Because it makes us do stupid reactive things that propigate the hate and chaos being used to stoke the flames of our own dread.

Stop acting like sheep!  Grow some balls and get some courage.  Refuse to be frightened into line.  Take back America and start setting things to right instead of being turned into wage slaves and mercenaries for the wealthy few. Don’t keep buying the lie and covering your eyes.