I really am having a hard time with this. An official government position of paranoia, to me, cries out against the very things that the United States of America is supposed to represent. And what’s worse is that the population as a whole is buying into it. Big Brother isn’t news. He’s a footnote. A sidebar story. Taken as writ. Imagine that this is you and tell me you’re really fine with it. That it’s all worth it for the sake of security. That freedom can only be assured through the sacrificing of that freedom. Is no one aware of the irony? Of the mirror image to the USSR?
In keeping with this mindset of misguided might is the missile defense plan, which has been proven repeatedly to be not only obsolete and ineffective but irrelevant. War isn’t waged on a front anymore. It’s waged underneath the radar by small groups bearing massively destructive packages. What can missile defense do against a suitcase nuke or a hijacked plane? It bothers me a lot that people are actually pursuing this idea. It’s not logical.
Lloyd Axworthy penned a letter to Condoleezza Rice that I’m enjoying quite a lot. He makes a lot of good points that are, to most people, perfectly obvious. Makes you wonder what The People In Charge are thinking when they’re alone in the dark with only a nightlight for company.
I gotta admit, the ankle bracelet thing is pretty ridiculous…. and kind of chilling too.
COMMENT:
ya know dj, my first unpanicked thought in the days after those buildings fell to earth was that everyone would then see the fallacy of missile defense. i mean, i didn’t see how anyone couldn’t see it. and then my mouth hung wide open a few days after that when the american administration used what had happened to bolster their case for said missile defense. boggles the mind that so many voters down south just don’t get it. don’t get it at all. in fact, they anti-get it.