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August 10, 2007

Forests and Trees

Just when you think you've seen everything, along comes some idiot and proposes that everything in America will be A-Okay again if we just have another 9/11. While I am perfectly capable of being generous about provocative statements as a literary tool to make a point, the reason I'm calling Stu Bykofsky an idiot is because he actually believes our big problem is terrorism. It's the burning "forest," he says, and we are all bickering with each other over the "trees."

Stu-pid Bykofsky says we are politically "splintered" as a country because, "thanks mainly to our ineptitude in Iraq … "we have forgotten who the enemy is." (Just in case you've forgotten who the enemy is, it's "global terrorists who use Islam to justify their hideous sins, including blowing up women and children.")

Our division as a country over Iraq is, he says, encouraging our enemies and weakening us (sounds so Bush-like). The reason we're against the war, says Stu-pid, is because "we don't have the patience for a long slog… We like fast food and fast war." I say Bullshit. Maybe Stu is stupid enough to believe that, but I don't think most Americans are.

We're upset over the war because it is being run by a bunch of lying thieves who are intent on destroying our freedoms in the name of preserving them, who don't give a rip about the people who are dying, and who have yet to give us one good believable reason why those deaths happened or should continue. We don't believe in the war anymore because we don't believe in fighting and dying for a mystery or for the benefit of war profiteers.

Stu is one of those uninformed Americans who still believes Iraq has something to do with 9/11, and it's a key part of why he thinks another 3,000 Americans need to die in a national tragedy. Because, he says, "[w]e knew who the enemy was shortly after 9/11." No, Stu-pid, we thought we knew who the enemy was after 9/11. We thought that because the President lied to us. He has never, ever made the case for ousting Saddam Hussein outside of 9/11 even though no evidence has ever been produced to show that Saddam Hussein, as evil as he was, had anything whatsoever to do with 9/11. Bush took our passion and our righteous outrage and poured it out on an enemy that did not deserve that passion and outrage, thereby allowing the enemy who did to get away.

We can go back and forth about who that real enemy is, and that is a legitimate debate, though one we are not likely to have as we ought. Personally, I believe 9/11 was not as it has been portrayed to us and that we are continuing to chase yet another evil enemy who, while evil, is nevertheless undeserving of the extreme level of wrath we are pouring out while the real enemy continues to evade justice. I believe in doing so, we are creating enemies who are coming after us with an extreme level of righteous outrage.

Stu-pid, however, believes the entire lie put forward by the Administration, who I believe was "in on it," and goes on to decry our "endless sideshow squabbles" about such things as whether the FBI should be wiretapping Americans without a warrant or whether the "terrorists" planning to attack Fort Dix were actually capable of doing any damage. Which for me is simply infuriating. Because the entire purpose of 9/11 and these exaggerated terrorist plans is to terrorize Americans into accepting the demolishing of their constitutional rights. In other words, while Stu-pid claims terrorism is the blazing forest and our loss of rights is the trees, I believe he has it completely backward. Americans are incredibly focused on the phony terrorist and amateur terrorist trees, the partisan bickering trees, and the Iraq war trees. It is our Constitution that is burning.

See why it matters that Bush lied? He has people saying things like Stu-pid, that America can only be unified and, therefore, saved by:

Another 9/11 attack.

The Golden Gate Bridge. Mount Rushmore. Chicago's Wrigley Field. The Philadelphia subway system.

And to just prove once and for all how utterly Stu-pid he is, he even admits that such unity wouldn't last forever, as the first 9/11 proved. Because the "chattering of chipmunks" will just rise up again. No doubt, resulting in the need for yet another 9/11.

Of course, if the bastards in Washington, DC would quit freaking lying to us, then maybe we actually could get our country back. Probably won't happen, though.

Posted by Becky at August 10, 2007 03:56 PM