George and Tony Admit to “Some Mistakes”

The facts on the world stage are so enormous that they seem incomprehensible. To make it more understandable I’ve tried to think of a scenario that is closer to home. This might make it easier.

You have a neighbor down the street that is “different”. You know the kind: loud and irritating. His lawn is frequently unmowed, the shrubs unpruned, and the house has not been painted in years. His kids are undisciplined, abrasive, and entirely too free with the fickle finger of fate. There are parties that are too loud, loud music at all hours, and his dog craps on your lawn.

You suspect that some of the “goings on” are illicit activities. There’s talk of drugs, wild sex parties, and satanic rituals “over there”. There are also a lot of odd looking strangers coming and going at all hours of the day and night. Besides, your neighbor has a “funny” name.

O.K., we’ve defined the problem.

What would be, what should be, the reaction of your close neighbors and the other citizens of the town if you suddenly, arbitrarily decided to take matters in hand and chose to forcibly enter your “different” neighbors home to “make some changes”?

You cut off his electricity and water. You stopped deliveries of food and supplies to his home. Then you smashed in his front door, killed his bad mannered, foul mouthed sons, shot the dog, and tossed hand grenades into every room in the house just in case some strangers might be present. You stripped out all the furniture and appliances that survived and set fire to the place.

To top it all off, when you found your neighbor cowering in a corner of his basement, you clapped him in irons and tossed him in the hoosegow.

Do you understand that your other neighbors and citizens of the town just might look at you in askance and with some anxiety? Do you understand that they might not trust you, or your sanity?

And why should they? Any of them might be the next target of your insanity. You are definitely the BIG BULLY on the block. If they have any sense, they will start planning to work together to mutually protect themselves from YOU.

Your former and present excuses and your former unverified suspicions now seem very lame in light of the present known facts. You cannot show off a “suspicious” discovery resulting from the invasion of your neighbor’s home. There was no hidden cache of drugs, case of condoms, boxes of ED drugs, porno magazines, firearms, or explosives.

Of course, your neighbor’s house burned to the foundation. The survivors are forced to live in a tent on the now dead front lawn, and there’s still no running water or electricity.

According to your public statements, all of that is O.K. by you because after all the problem is solved and some positive things resulted from your actions. This also seems to be the attitude of your surrogates and spin doctors that are constantly making excuses for your behaviors. After all the dog no longer craps on your lawn, the neighbor’s kids no longer are abusive and disrespectful, and the loud music and parties have definitely stopped.

You and your fellow travelers admit to “some mistakes” and keep pointing to the “positive results” as if that was sufficient excuse for your own undisciplined, bullying, and morally unacceptable behaviors. It is as if you want and expect people to love you and trust you. Why in God’s name should they? You are not deserving of trust. Any trust and goodwill that you may have accrued in the past is long gone. It will take many years to regain it to the same degree that formerly existed.

You are now viewed as the problem neighbor.

You are already finding your range of actions circumscribed because of your former rash actions.

How would you feel about someone else using your demonstrated methods of problem solving? Everyone and anyone can claim the same high moral ground you did to absolve any wrong doing that they may choose to do. Isn’t it reasonable in turn to expect others to act as you have and still do?

No wonder, any wonder, that some neighbors might be discussing some similar method of “getting rid” of you? They have good reason to be afraid.

When I was growing up, there was a common expression in use: “There goes a man in need of a good killing”. I think it likely that most people thought that they knew what it meant: a thoroughly bad person who had not yet run so afoul of the law and the legal system as to be punished - and whom society would not miss. Implying, isn’t it too bad someone doesn’t act arbitrarily and lift this burden from society?

However, such a thought which might conceivably work on a personal level, with dubious or no connections to equal protections within the law, does not work on the international level.

The facts are, George and Tony, that you didn‘t make “some mistakes”. You used overwhelming raw military force to destroy a country you did not like and that you “thought” was “dangerous”. George and Tony, face it, admit it. On an international field, you royally f _ cked up! As in Big Time. Hundreds, thousands of innocent peoples lives no longer exist because of your combined adventuresome “mistakes”. Their price paid in heart’s blood does not justify your actions. Have the common decency to at least say that clearly like moral men should and demonstrate some humility at your own hubris.

The lesson is that just because we think we are “good people” and “good at heart” and are trying to do “the right thing” does not make it automatically so. Other militarists in the past have held similar delusions of grandeur and a similar “mission from God”. Might makes right. The end justifies the means. Because I can, I will.

Because of your belief in your own infallibility. Because of your belief that you could not be wrong, or because you just wanted to flex your military arm like so many other tin horn, loony tunes, militaristic “leaders” of the past, you have caused our beloved country to have to change how it thinks about itself. We have become what we fought against in World War II. How are our actions different from those of Germany, Italy and Japan before World War II?

I listened carefully to the lies you had delivered with a straight face to the UN. Because I wanted to believe that our leaders would not deliberately lie about something so important to world peace, I trusted in what you said. For it not to be true, for it to be based on the unsubstantiated, unverified “stories” of unreliable third parties with personal and political agendas, makes my personal decision to suspend my normal distrust of you, your political party, and your political ideology, culpable.

It makes me feel dirty to know that I believed that you would not lie before the world about something so enormous as weapons of mass destruction.

In no way have I ever faltered in my support of our fighting men and women. They are doing as they are ordered. They are doing as they are trained. They must continue to do this and continue to believe in their country. Without them, we will have no country.

What I have learned is that you are no longer worthy of trust and respect. No Krovian Twist and Spin is going to change that. No long dead “red herring” thrown in my path to the polls will deter me in my efforts to do my best to see that you and yours are removed from office.

Nothing less can let me feel clean again.

“Some mistakes” indeed!

(c) Copyright 2006: George Wallace recently published a book on religion which lashes out at nearly all of the comfortable ideas about God, the trappings of organized religion, and the priesthood. His pithy comments and suggestions for a return to a God-centered personal religion will interest everyone. This article may be freely reprinted so long as all copyright attributions, and the full content of this resource box are included. www.OhGodIsThatYou.com

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