General rant
Aug. 26th, 2003 02:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grinninfooleThe news continues to disgust me.
First off, we have a handicapped child tortured to death by religious extremists:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3181637.stm
That something like this happens here in the USA fills me with despair for our sanity as a society. Nut jobs like these folks are just a few steps removed from that dumbfuck judge in Alabama (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3175421.stm) are a blight on our nation and display a gift for being wrong on every issue so consistent that they must be divinely inspired.
Meanwhile, in Iraq, our soldiers continue to die as peace, prosperity and orderly democracy fail to magically appear. I notice that even as the attacks continue, they're no longer being fobbed off exclusively on 'Baathist loyalists', but also onto 'foreign terrorists.' Since the Baath party wasn't really about ideology, but about Hussein's Al-Tikriti clan holding on to power, I really don't see why there'd be too many willing to keep fighting and dying for such an obviously lost cause. (I don't know how much acceptance the US really has in Iraq, but I'm sure that Hussein and his crowd will never be allowed back in power.) So, if the attackers aren't foreign terrorists, then we have to ask what is really going on and what we are really do there, and our warlords won't permit that. Besides, this way, it's all linked into our war on terror, so they can keep using the same old justification.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3182157.stm
Moreover, this pig's ear of a war is making the US financial situation all the more dire. I don't know which pisses me off more: the fatuous nonsense that the war was necessary and would be over quickly, or that tax cuts are all that's needed to fix our economy.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3182339.stm
Our nation is heading for a hard fall. Soon. I don't look foward to it. Between corporate greed and religious fanaticism lies our doom.
First off, we have a handicapped child tortured to death by religious extremists:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3181637.stm
That something like this happens here in the USA fills me with despair for our sanity as a society. Nut jobs like these folks are just a few steps removed from that dumbfuck judge in Alabama (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3175421.stm) are a blight on our nation and display a gift for being wrong on every issue so consistent that they must be divinely inspired.
Meanwhile, in Iraq, our soldiers continue to die as peace, prosperity and orderly democracy fail to magically appear. I notice that even as the attacks continue, they're no longer being fobbed off exclusively on 'Baathist loyalists', but also onto 'foreign terrorists.' Since the Baath party wasn't really about ideology, but about Hussein's Al-Tikriti clan holding on to power, I really don't see why there'd be too many willing to keep fighting and dying for such an obviously lost cause. (I don't know how much acceptance the US really has in Iraq, but I'm sure that Hussein and his crowd will never be allowed back in power.) So, if the attackers aren't foreign terrorists, then we have to ask what is really going on and what we are really do there, and our warlords won't permit that. Besides, this way, it's all linked into our war on terror, so they can keep using the same old justification.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3182157.stm
Moreover, this pig's ear of a war is making the US financial situation all the more dire. I don't know which pisses me off more: the fatuous nonsense that the war was necessary and would be over quickly, or that tax cuts are all that's needed to fix our economy.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3182339.stm
Our nation is heading for a hard fall. Soon. I don't look foward to it. Between corporate greed and religious fanaticism lies our doom.
