It might be fun, but I don't think it would help any. Getting our troops out of there might stop them from being in the firing line, but doesn't do much for the actual situation for the ordinary people in Iraq. But I don't know what will. I wouldn't start from here...but here is where we are. The whole thing's a fucking mess, but it's our mess, not 'theirs', because, like it or not, (which I don't) this stuff is what democracy is all about: if you vote in GWB you get GWB's policies and mistakes. If you didn't vote for him, of course you may disagree, but he's still the one in power.* If you want to change the system, fine go ahead: I'm right behind you and can't wait for you to succeed. And in some senses, perhaps you are right, but in the politics of the real world you're never going to be able to arraign GWB, are you? So we'll keep on prosecuting and pillorying the small men, the runners, the ordinary soldiers, the people carrying out the policy: because we can never get the big guys, the ones who were the 'deciders'. Pointless scapegoating, and as bad as the opposition, but at least it will give those that need it some vindication in the scapegoat's pain, and act as some collective contritional catharsis. Same coin, different face. My, aren't we the cool ones.
*If you're an Iraqi you didn't get to vote, then you are a victim, and have legitimate complaint, both against GWB and his policies, and the previous regime. But still, I can't see a court agreeing with you, for all the moral rightness of the case.
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Date: 2007-04-27 01:45 pm (UTC)I wouldn't start from here...but here is where we are. The whole thing's a fucking mess, but it's our mess, not 'theirs', because, like it or not, (which I don't) this stuff is what democracy is all about: if you vote in GWB you get GWB's policies and mistakes. If you didn't vote for him, of course you may disagree, but he's still the one in power.*
If you want to change the system, fine go ahead: I'm right behind you and can't wait for you to succeed.
And in some senses, perhaps you are right, but in the politics of the real world you're never going to be able to arraign GWB, are you?
So we'll keep on prosecuting and pillorying the small men, the runners, the ordinary soldiers, the people carrying out the policy: because we can never get the big guys, the ones who were the 'deciders'.
Pointless scapegoating, and as bad as the opposition, but at least it will give those that need it some vindication in the scapegoat's pain, and act as some collective contritional catharsis.
Same coin, different face.
My, aren't we the cool ones.
*If you're an Iraqi you didn't get to vote, then you are a victim, and have legitimate complaint, both against GWB and his policies, and the previous regime. But still, I can't see a court agreeing with you, for all the moral rightness of the case.