random, post-inauguration thoughts
Since last Thursday, I have been thinking a lot about the fact that one man has changed the history of the world forever. Of course, that man is Osama bin Laden.
Until or unless we discover that bin Laden has been working with the American government to promote bush (not that wild of a concept, considering that we trained and outfitted him initially), then we have to realize that one man (and his followers, of course) has managed to completely change the course of human events around the world as well as the status of the US in the eyes of every person on the planet.
Without the actions that Osama orchestrated on 9-11-01, bush would have continued to have been a bumbling dunderhead of a president, with no credibility whatsoever, and would never have been elected in 2004. bush’s plans for attacking Saddam and Iraq would have been met with considerably more scrutiny and would never have escalated into the horrific disaster that we are now embroiled in. He would not have reason to believe that he has a “mandate” and would never have been able to create the terrible policies that are restricting the rights, actions, words and lives of our people, as well as those around the world. The US would not be hated and feared universally across the earth and we would not be looking at possible Armageddon.
Our government played so perfectly into the hands of bin Laden that it’s almost difficult to believe that they are NOT working together! Osama could not have asked for a better reaction than bush’s. Attacking a country that had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks has caused the world to despise and fear us, has helped Osama’s recruiting, has murdered thousands upon thousands, has caused America to live in fear and has pretty much destroyed our economy. What more could bin Laden want?!
Whether or not they are working together, neither bush nor bin Laden would logically want either one to be removed from power. Each one is the other’s boogeyman. Each is a recruiting tool, an example of the “evil” in the world. This will continue until one decides that the other is no longer needed.
One man’s action has sent the world on a collision course with disaster, as they say. Will the forces of evil at work here let anyone rise up against this insanity? That is anyone’s guess. Has it already gone too far? Possibly…. Let’s hope there are enough people with some fight in them to give us all a chance, though!
Until or unless we discover that bin Laden has been working with the American government to promote bush (not that wild of a concept, considering that we trained and outfitted him initially), then we have to realize that one man (and his followers, of course) has managed to completely change the course of human events around the world as well as the status of the US in the eyes of every person on the planet.
Without the actions that Osama orchestrated on 9-11-01, bush would have continued to have been a bumbling dunderhead of a president, with no credibility whatsoever, and would never have been elected in 2004. bush’s plans for attacking Saddam and Iraq would have been met with considerably more scrutiny and would never have escalated into the horrific disaster that we are now embroiled in. He would not have reason to believe that he has a “mandate” and would never have been able to create the terrible policies that are restricting the rights, actions, words and lives of our people, as well as those around the world. The US would not be hated and feared universally across the earth and we would not be looking at possible Armageddon.
Our government played so perfectly into the hands of bin Laden that it’s almost difficult to believe that they are NOT working together! Osama could not have asked for a better reaction than bush’s. Attacking a country that had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks has caused the world to despise and fear us, has helped Osama’s recruiting, has murdered thousands upon thousands, has caused America to live in fear and has pretty much destroyed our economy. What more could bin Laden want?!
Whether or not they are working together, neither bush nor bin Laden would logically want either one to be removed from power. Each one is the other’s boogeyman. Each is a recruiting tool, an example of the “evil” in the world. This will continue until one decides that the other is no longer needed.
One man’s action has sent the world on a collision course with disaster, as they say. Will the forces of evil at work here let anyone rise up against this insanity? That is anyone’s guess. Has it already gone too far? Possibly…. Let’s hope there are enough people with some fight in them to give us all a chance, though!
posted by rich at 2:30 PM
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