We're all so damn certain. Certain that there are weapons of mass destruction. Certain we'll be welcomed with open arms when we invade a country. Really, it's not just the nutjob right-wingers who are certain. Dems are certain that pulling the troups out will get us where we want to be. Libertarians are certain our lives would be hunkey-dory if we'd just get government off our backs.
I'm sick of people who are so damn certain. Life is not like that. Uncertainty rules us and will continue to do so. All of our black & white solutions to our problems, all of which were caused by "the other side," are unenlightened and shallow and utterly at odds with reality.
Once Bush and company completely fucked up the works by invading Iraq, there was no certainty left about how to extricate ourselves. Sure, no weapons of mass destruction, but does their absence absolve us of responsibility to rebuild what we destroyed? Will pulling out of Iraq actually help the Iraqis, or seal their fate to succumb to horrific civil war? We're invested in Iraq; we have to extricate ourselves carefully and we must not abandon the people we ostensibly invaded to save. We have to acknowledge that our own actions helped boost Al Queda and we need to figure out ways to stop that boosterism.
Democrats and Republicans alike are behaving in such an incredibly partisan manner that it makes me want to scream. They're both a bunch of spineless pricks who won't own up to the fact that, like it or not, we're the cause of the chaos and we must not simply walk away, leaving the spoils to whoever can muster the most power. First and foremost, Iraq should be a lesson: never invade a country on the off-chance it might be plotting against you. Second, when you break rule one, your choices are cowardice and its obvious results or sacrifice and it obvious pain. Third, the second rule should always guide us: don't break the first one.
This entire administration and the Congress should step down and let people with principles step up to govern this land. I truly hate the bastards who have bet our lives on their own personal political agendas.
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Over time, I've observed that insanity speaks with a voice of authority that sane thinking doesn't have. Sane thinking questions, and investigates, and evaluates - so this administration is insane.
Yes, divajood, you're right. This administration is insane, criminally insane. I'm convinced Congress is similarly afflicted, both Republicans and Democrats.
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