In history, when America has come under attack, we summon up all the anger and carefully package it in fear so we are armed with the verve it takes to go kick some "mutha f*ck*n butt."(American soldiers I spoke with) It has always been that way. America knows how to react because we have elected reationary leaders. When we don't take our time to think things through, we are prone to reacting rather than responding. It is odd that a president should be given the title of Commander in Chief when it takes careful thinking and pressure through a plan of response( opposite of reaction).
I believe our current president isn't a fit commander in chief. He tends to react and the war on Iraq was an agenda he had when he was still governor of Texas. He exploited Sept. 11th to go after Iraq rather than quell the terrorism of the world. In fact, his so called actions have led us into a reactionary war and never have I seen so many terrorists born around the globe.
I believe our president seeks to move us all into his mother's womb, well some of us(do you look smashing in red?). Think back to the good ol days of President Truman and Winston Churchill. It was a time where well to do white folks sat in smoking parlours and reveled in the prospects of peace. The year:1946. Churchill gave his famous "Iron Curtain" speech to Westminster College where Truman was proud and in awe. In that speech, Britain and America held the deed to democracy and it was up to us to bring the concepts of freedom and democracy to the rest of the savage world. Upon hearing this, a movement began in the areas we call the middle east up to the areas we call Afghanistan. A huge group of grizzly savages, we would call them terrorists in today's world, went after the Hindu people. By October of 1946, the feared Muslim League who the British and Americans refused to acknowlege at that time had already brutally slaughtered over a million Hindu people. The message of retalliation to that part of the world was, "They bring you freedom, we bring you the call of the Muslim."
We wage democracy as if it were War. We wage war where we gift others with democracy while doing business and sipping tea with those who aren't democratic countries. Is it no wonder other countries think they can play us like a fiddle? Is it no wonder that we are heading into another war before we even finish this one? Violins have always made me cry as the weeping chords strike me deep within my soul. How poignant of them to pluck the American strings in their attempt to fit into the harmony we hope to provide.
Our harmonious nation isn't perfect and some with good old fashioned American Pride claim, "It is the best in the world." Where ever our mothers and fathers, our siblings and children can run, work, breath clean air, drink clean water, have roofs over our heads and not be unfairly taxed: this is the best place in the world. We create in our own corner "the best place".
I hope other countries will treat their people fairly. Shame on Sudan. Shame on China. Shame on the greedy cabinets and leaders of this world who exploit the political dissent of its people. To you leaders I say, you exploit the divisions today, but your legacy will be annihalation and devastation.
When a nation such as ours goes in to other countries with our principles in mind and our own problems exposed (or covered up) there will surely be a war.
September 11th should have fortified us, made us think, gathered us, armed us, trained us all, and secured our "grain houses" prior to responding. We should have allowed our growing strength to create a more proper fear in the heart of the terrorists. Have we learned from this? I seriously doubt it.
This is my diary entry for the week because I'm unable to do much online these days.
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