Endless fantasy
Tragic Reprise: A Nation of Stupid Children, Who Refuse to Give Up the Lies
as the connected states is about to begin the sixth year of its eternally unforgivable, genocidal war lawlessness in iraq, i direct your concentration to a article i wrote just over a year ago, on march 1, 2007. i could be undergoing selected any number of essays, but this one will do for the sake of my purposes.”a land of stupid children, who refuse to transmit up the lies” arose out of yet another of the utterly valueless controversies of the moment. such daily contortions over trivialities — which contortions consume our major media and extreme too many bloggers of all political persuasions — avert us from alliance anything of drift nearly the actual meaning of our nation’s actions. this is why so many of us love them so much: we never have to think and, of even greater importance, we never be struck by to do a damned thing that force in actuality matter to lodge the ceaseless crimes. in this instance, the circus was display set upon in motion by john mccain’s comment that the united states had “wasted a lot of … american lives” in iraq.and the heavens shook. verging on no one would utter the truth, which was far, further worse than anything mccain or any other national act had said. as i wrote:the truth is infinitely worse than that these lives must been “wasted”: these deaths have served to strengthen our enemies and ease off our own country in countless ways that our factual enemies could never get achieved on their own. that these lives have been “wasted” is the most artistically one can suggest, not the worst. they are the greatest benefit our enemies could dream of. these lives have not been “wasted”: they are the artificial tribute laid at the feet of our enemies, by our own leaders in the pursuit of indefensible and criminal aims.of course, the detection of this truth requires that we command like adults, and that we are capable of coherent thought, shorn of lies. we must be willing to dispose cede up the myth of the “noble soldier” who “selflessly sacrifices” his spark of life for the glory of the ameliorate and good united states — and sit down with that these individuals died in a criminal war of aggression launched to consolidate and expand america’s hegemonic task, a objective embraced by almost every leading politician, republican and self-governing, over diverse decades of entirely avoidable conflict, turmoil and undoing.i find it easier to behave with the widespread ignorance that afflicts so many americans — for admonition, the verging on total lack of apprehension concerning the u.s. occupation of the philippines that i detailed matrix week. since they are rarely provided with this information, it is possible that at least some americans might prove capable of engrossing it, and begin to insupportable the myths that maintain their identities as “americans.”but it is almost unrealizable to extent with the fact that so assorted americans, almost all our political leaders, and our media in effect without exception are so relentlessly stupid, and so resolutely determined to crumbs so. as this latest episode in national idiocy proves yet again, and for the millionth time, this laughably pitiful state of affairs certainly would act to be the unalterable truth of where we are.and so we debate whether these lives were “wasted.” with the blind ferocity of religious maniacs, we enforce our further puritan criterion criteria, which demands that certain prohibited thoughts may not in any degree be uttered. violation of this code means banishment from public pungency and from too “serious” consideration. every matter of importance is reduced to the genius unalterable of a remarkably backward house dearest.meanwhile, no one will a halt this criminal war and occupation. and no one will do a goddamned thing to stop the next war, which could alter all our lives forever.how in the Terra do most americans face themselves each morning? someone needs to explain that to me. i beyond the shadow of a doubt would match to know.it is now a year later, and i still would delight in to know.it is now a year later, and more than one million people have been murdered.it is for the nonce a year later, and still no one will prohibition this cursed war and occupation.a year from now, perhaps some american troops will have been withdrawn. but regardless of who the unusual president is, at least 80,000 or 90,000 american troops will remain, and probably more. the theater of death will go on.a year from now, the war may very agreeable have widened. if there is a major attack on u.s. troops in iraq (or any of a number of similar possible incidents), if the blame is laid at the feet of iran — regardless of whether such a be entitled to is truthfully or not, and we may not know someone is concerned many more years, if all the time — and if
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