JERRY
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Cry, My Beloved Country
I am 63-years-old and I have never been as ashamed of my government.
It's really a shame that Mouhammed Atta didn't go for the Capitol Building instead. posted Jerry Bowles 8:21 PM
Sunday, September 24, 2006
I am 63-years-old and I have never been as ashamed of my government.
It's really a shame that Mouhammed Atta didn't go for the Capitol Building instead. posted Jerry Bowles 8:21 PM
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Osama's Mission Accomplished
Whether Osama bin Laden is still dead or alive is a matter of passing interest but it is no longer a critical factor in bringing resolution to the tragic events of September 11, 2001. Thanks to the misguided, disasterously overblown response of the Bush administration, a spectacular criminal act by a small band of determined international outlaws has become exactly what its creator wanted it to be: a clash of Western and Islamic civilizations that will rage for many years and possibly trigger a global war or certainly an endless series of regional ones.
Not in his wildest dreams could Osama have forseen that Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld and their merry band of pipedreaming neoncons would play right into his hands by using the 9/11 attacks as a pretext to invade a soverign and uninvolved Arab nation...and be dumb enough to believe that doing so would produce a grateful populace and a budding democracy. By "liberating" the majority Iraqi shites, Bush Co. has simply created another Islamic republic that will ultimately be controlled by radical fundamentalists.
Most important of all, the administration's heavy-handed response has divided Americans into warring camps, revealed to the world that when it comes to fundamental human and legal rights we lack the courage of our convinctions, and has vastly expanded the number of Muslims who hate us and would be willing to die in harebrained suicide schemes.
The world is much more dangerous place today than it was before we invaded Iraq and we are less--not more--safe from terrorists than we were before 9/11.
Dead or alive, Osama can rest in peace. His mission has been accomplished. posted Jerry Bowles 11:26 AM
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Whether Osama bin Laden is still dead or alive is a matter of passing interest but it is no longer a critical factor in bringing resolution to the tragic events of September 11, 2001. Thanks to the misguided, disasterously overblown response of the Bush administration, a spectacular criminal act by a small band of determined international outlaws has become exactly what its creator wanted it to be: a clash of Western and Islamic civilizations that will rage for many years and possibly trigger a global war or certainly an endless series of regional ones.
Not in his wildest dreams could Osama have forseen that Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld and their merry band of pipedreaming neoncons would play right into his hands by using the 9/11 attacks as a pretext to invade a soverign and uninvolved Arab nation...and be dumb enough to believe that doing so would produce a grateful populace and a budding democracy. By "liberating" the majority Iraqi shites, Bush Co. has simply created another Islamic republic that will ultimately be controlled by radical fundamentalists.
Most important of all, the administration's heavy-handed response has divided Americans into warring camps, revealed to the world that when it comes to fundamental human and legal rights we lack the courage of our convinctions, and has vastly expanded the number of Muslims who hate us and would be willing to die in harebrained suicide schemes.
The world is much more dangerous place today than it was before we invaded Iraq and we are less--not more--safe from terrorists than we were before 9/11.
Dead or alive, Osama can rest in peace. His mission has been accomplished. posted Jerry Bowles 11:26 AM
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
The Real Clash of Civilizations is Here
If you had told me in the spring of 2001 that all it would take to destroy every principle that has made this country a symbol of liberty around the world was a single, spectacular, hail Allah attack by a small band of determined religious fanatics, I would have thought you were as crazy as Dick Cheney or Osama bin Laden.
I have since learned to my great sadness is that there is a substantial minority of Americans who feel their lives are so out of control that they yearn to live in a locked-down authoritarian state. They are so scared of the boogeymen that the Bush fascists have unleashed that they are willing to give up on ideals I once naively believed that most Americans considered the bedrock of the our notion of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Forget being a nation of laws, not men. Forget the right to a fair trial in an impartial court, to hear the evidence against you, to defend yourself. Forget habeus corpus and personal privacy and all those apparently optional legal niceties that have made our country a beacon of freedom. Forget about international laws, and Christian injunctions, about torture. The brown people are coming. The brown people are coming. Give me liberty or give me death has suddenly become kill 'em all and let God (the Christian one) sort 'em out.
Not all of these people are stupid or evil. But, they are frightened of a world that seems to be spinning into chaos. Maybe it's because they've lost control of their children and think it's because liberals won't let Jesus into the classrooms. Maybe it's because they are bored with a lifetime of tedium, going to work every day in meaningless jobs, watching "reality" shows on TV instead of getting a real life, spending more than they have on useless crap at the mall. Maybe it's the constant, mind-numbing dumbness of cable news and its unseemly fascination with missing and probably raped white women and its cursory attention to really important issues--like the fiasco in Iraq and an economy in which the rich are getting richer and the middle class doesn't understand it is they who are paying for it with their support of politicans who only want to scare and exploit them.
We are told that we have give up our liberties because 9/11 changed everything and that the challenge we face today is "unprecedented." That is an outrageous lie. Human beings long ago ran out of evil things they can think of to do to each other. There is no barberous act, no sneak attack, no massacre, no genocide that is left unprecedented in the long and sordid annals of man's stay on this earth.
What was unprecedented is a single country that was able--with admittedly some mistakes along the way--for nearly 250 years to hold itself to a higher standard of civilized behavior. I'm afraid all that is lost forever. posted Jerry Bowles 3:48 PM
Sunday, September 17, 2006
If you had told me in the spring of 2001 that all it would take to destroy every principle that has made this country a symbol of liberty around the world was a single, spectacular, hail Allah attack by a small band of determined religious fanatics, I would have thought you were as crazy as Dick Cheney or Osama bin Laden.
I have since learned to my great sadness is that there is a substantial minority of Americans who feel their lives are so out of control that they yearn to live in a locked-down authoritarian state. They are so scared of the boogeymen that the Bush fascists have unleashed that they are willing to give up on ideals I once naively believed that most Americans considered the bedrock of the our notion of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Forget being a nation of laws, not men. Forget the right to a fair trial in an impartial court, to hear the evidence against you, to defend yourself. Forget habeus corpus and personal privacy and all those apparently optional legal niceties that have made our country a beacon of freedom. Forget about international laws, and Christian injunctions, about torture. The brown people are coming. The brown people are coming. Give me liberty or give me death has suddenly become kill 'em all and let God (the Christian one) sort 'em out.
Not all of these people are stupid or evil. But, they are frightened of a world that seems to be spinning into chaos. Maybe it's because they've lost control of their children and think it's because liberals won't let Jesus into the classrooms. Maybe it's because they are bored with a lifetime of tedium, going to work every day in meaningless jobs, watching "reality" shows on TV instead of getting a real life, spending more than they have on useless crap at the mall. Maybe it's the constant, mind-numbing dumbness of cable news and its unseemly fascination with missing and probably raped white women and its cursory attention to really important issues--like the fiasco in Iraq and an economy in which the rich are getting richer and the middle class doesn't understand it is they who are paying for it with their support of politicans who only want to scare and exploit them.
We are told that we have give up our liberties because 9/11 changed everything and that the challenge we face today is "unprecedented." That is an outrageous lie. Human beings long ago ran out of evil things they can think of to do to each other. There is no barberous act, no sneak attack, no massacre, no genocide that is left unprecedented in the long and sordid annals of man's stay on this earth.
What was unprecedented is a single country that was able--with admittedly some mistakes along the way--for nearly 250 years to hold itself to a higher standard of civilized behavior. I'm afraid all that is lost forever. posted Jerry Bowles 3:48 PM
Sunday, September 17, 2006
Blame Bush: Joe Scarborough Sees the Light
Conservative commentator Joe Scarborough writing in today WaPo:
Thursday, September 07, 2006
Conservative commentator Joe Scarborough writing in today WaPo:
How exactly does one convince the teeming masses that Republicans deserve to stay in power despite botching a war, doubling the national debt, keeping company with Jack Abramoff, fumbling the response to Hurricane Katrina, expanding the government at record rates, raising cronyism to an art form, playing poker with Duke Cunningham, isolating America and repeatedly electing Tom DeLay as their House majority leader?posted Jerry Bowles 9:01 AM
How does a God-fearing Reagan Republican explain all that away?
Easy. Blame George W. Bush.
Thursday, September 07, 2006
Bush Confesses to War Crimes
We have reached the bottom when an American president admits to maintaining secret torture chambers around the world that violate every principle of international law, American decency, and simple Christian humanity. The admission is compounded by the fact that he is only doing say to provide red meat to a neanderthal base of moral and mental midgets. This is a truly sad day for Americans who believe in liberty, the rule of law, and due process. posted Jerry Bowles 7:45 AM
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
We have reached the bottom when an American president admits to maintaining secret torture chambers around the world that violate every principle of international law, American decency, and simple Christian humanity. The admission is compounded by the fact that he is only doing say to provide red meat to a neanderthal base of moral and mental midgets. This is a truly sad day for Americans who believe in liberty, the rule of law, and due process. posted Jerry Bowles 7:45 AM
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
The Wildlife Strike Back - Adios, Mate
The Australian government is seriously thinking of having a state funeral for its native son, the TV nature buffoon Steve Irwin, who was killed yesterday by a sting ray, one of the most passive animals in the sea. It was kind of a sweet piece of irony considering that Irwin had built a career on annoying seriously dangerous animals that should have been left alone in the first place simply for his own entertainment, and ours. One can't help regretting that it wasn't a giant crocodile that did the deed. The footage would have been so much more entertaining.
The Australian government is seriously thinking of having a state funeral for its native son, the TV nature buffoon Steve Irwin, who was killed yesterday by a sting ray, one of the most passive animals in the sea. It was kind of a sweet piece of irony considering that Irwin had built a career on annoying seriously dangerous animals that should have been left alone in the first place simply for his own entertainment, and ours. One can't help regretting that it wasn't a giant crocodile that did the deed. The footage would have been so much more entertaining.
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