Joseph A. Hayden (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} bearlawnyc) wrote,@ 2004-10-14 10:12:00 |
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The Nuisance of Terrorism
Let's be real for a moment. There is a difference between saying "terrorism IS a nuisance" (which is a complete distortion of what Kerry said) and lamenting for the days when terrorism was an unlikely and improbable reality as it HAD been about sixty years between attacks on American soil. Kudos for Kerry for not apologizing for reminiscing about those days. I think the "security moms" and their ilk are probably more likely to be desirous of those days than the Orwellian (yes, I am using the word that Kerry used during the second debate despite the fact that most Bush supporters probably have no inkling as to the meaning of the literary reference) prospect of identification chips for all people in the USA, like the medical chips that were apparently approved for implantation in human beings today. How regressive.
Does installing a puppet government in Afghanistan and Iraq MITIGATE terrorism? It certainly didn't put the USA in good favor with the majority of the Iranian people decades ago, but they are privy to something in their recent history that most Americans are ignorant about, namely the installation of the Shah by the United States after the CIA assassinated his predecessor. Wouldn't we be a little disjointed if a world power shot Bush and installed a favorable puppet in the US government? Oh wait, maybe we had better not answer that question.
Let's be real for a moment. There is a difference between saying "terrorism IS a nuisance" (which is a complete distortion of what Kerry said) and lamenting for the days when terrorism was an unlikely and improbable reality as it HAD been about sixty years between attacks on American soil. Kudos for Kerry for not apologizing for reminiscing about those days. I think the "security moms" and their ilk are probably more likely to be desirous of those days than the Orwellian (yes, I am using the word that Kerry used during the second debate despite the fact that most Bush supporters probably have no inkling as to the meaning of the literary reference) prospect of identification chips for all people in the USA, like the medical chips that were apparently approved for implantation in human beings today. How regressive.
Does installing a puppet government in Afghanistan and Iraq MITIGATE terrorism? It certainly didn't put the USA in good favor with the majority of the Iranian people decades ago, but they are privy to something in their recent history that most Americans are ignorant about, namely the installation of the Shah by the United States after the CIA assassinated his predecessor. Wouldn't we be a little disjointed if a world power shot Bush and installed a favorable puppet in the US government? Oh wait, maybe we had better not answer that question.
