Attacking Iran -- The Defining Moment of the Foolish Generation .... Wednesday, November 7th, 2007


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User: "Uncle Wally"
Date: 06 Nov 2007 09:17:33 PM
Object: Attacking Iran -- The Defining Moment of the Foolish Generation .... Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
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http://mwcnews.net/content/view/17898/26/
The Defining Moment of the Foolish Generation
By Robert Weitzel
Carlos Latuff/ MWC NEWS
In the 2002 run-up to the Iraq War, President Bush stopped for a photo-
op at the East Literature Magnet School in Nashville, Tennessee. Using
the opportunity to justify his impending invasion of Iraq to middle
and high school students, he shared with them his mangled version of a
Texas truism,
"Fool me once, shame on - shame on you.
Fool me - you can't get fooled again."
It seems a majority of us can get fooled again . . . and again . . .
and yet again. In fact, a critical mass of the American electorate is
taken in as easily as a photon of light is sucked down a black hole.
Who would have thought that while the United States is embroiled in a
war and occupation predicated on impeachable lies-that all but the
comatose or Fox News devotees are aware of-a slight majority of
Americans could be duped into supporting a pre-emptive attack on Iran
based on "intelligence" provided by the Bush-Cheney administration.
But sadly, that's exactly what we seem prepared to do. According to a
recent Zogby Poll, 52 percent of those interviewed supported a
military strike to prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon-which
experts believe will take at least another five years. Time enough for
a diplomatic resolution.
Granted, gullibility is inherent in our species and one can imagine
its survival value in our evolutionary past. But we no longer live in
caves or fight with clubs. Believing everything we hear or read does
not enhance survival when smoking guns can turn into mushroom clouds.
So how is it that we've let ourselves become such a Foolish
Generation?
"Who would have thought that while the United States is embroiled in a
war and occupation predicated on impeachable lies-that all but the
comatose or Fox News devotees are aware of-a slight majority of
Americans could be duped into supporting a pre-emptive attack on Iran
based on "intelligence" provided by the Bush-Cheney administration. "
Is the root of our foolishness nourished by the fact that 70 percent
of Americans actually believe there is a devil in hell? Given the
mega-church mentality, with its crusader zeal and apocalyptic vision
that has hijacked our generation's collective conscience and political
discourse, it's not a large leap of faith to believe that Lucifer can
turn his minions loose in Iraq or Iran or wherever.
And if that faith is cynically exploited by corporate-owned Neocons
bent on the conquest of the oil rich "Land of Evil" in the name of God
and freedom, is our goose-stepping off to war really such a conundrum?
President Bush raises the specter of World War III should Iran develop
a single nuclear weapon (the U.S. and its allies have thousands), just
as then National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice conjured up
imagines of mushroom clouds in the march to war with Iraq.
Carlos Latuff/ MWC NEWS
Our attack on Iran could very possibly unleash WW III, but not for the
reason Bush imagines. Nuclear-armed countries such as China, Russia,
India, Pakistan and Israel, and all non-nuclear Muslim nations are
inextricably bound in a web of strategic, economic and religious
interests in the "Land of Evil" that cannot withstand our foolishness
indefinitely.
And the mushroom clouds we'll see over Iran will not be from jihadist
suicide bombers, but from our tactical bunker-busting nuclear
missiles, which are an integral part of the military's attack plan.
Lest we get fooled again:
People will die in this new war in Iran as they are in Iraq, as they
did in Vietnam-as people do in war-by the tens of thousands or
millions . . . one irreversible death at a time.
Families will be vaporized as they huddle together and cry and fowl
themselves in fear and pray to whichever god they believe is
listening. A child will die from a single bullet to the brain or in
pieces. The dead will become carrion and the dogs and the rats and the
crows will grow fat.
And when the bombing stops and the blood and pieces of flesh and
viscera are washed away and down the sewer, history will have been
made and the Foolish Generation will be indicted.
We will not be able to camouflage our culpability within the mottled
grey of words such as "terrorism" and "genocide." We will have
committed the murder of innocent daughters and sons and mothers and
fathers on a massive scale. There can be no mincing of words. It is
mass murder. And our foolishness is no defense.
"President Bush raises the specter of World War III should Iran
develop a single nuclear weapon (the U.S. and its allies have
thousands), just as then National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice
conjured up imagines of mushroom clouds in the march to war with
Iraq."
During his warmongering at the East Literature Magnet School,
President Bush stressed the importance of youngsters understanding
history because it gives them "a better sense of what it means to be
an American." Imagine youngsters in Berlin in 1939 listening to a
similar speech by their warmongering Furher. Now imagine their sense
of what it meant to be a German in 1945, tainted as they were by the
blood on their parents' hands. History has not been kind to those
youngsters.
If our Foolish Generation cannot find a way to extricate itself from
the black hole of history into which it is plunging, our children's
blood-spattered generation will face the court of world opinion with a
weak defense:
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me . . . and my
issue in perpetuity."
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