Tom Walker wrote:
>
> Brad McCormick, Ed.D
>
> > show so clearly how true seeing in our time is in "false color"
> > generated by electronic image enhancing devices -- images which
> > nobody could see with their natural eyes.
>
> In crisis (plague) times such as these I keep recalling Oedipus Rex. About
> 12 years ago, I was reading D.P. Moynihan's history of LBJ's war on poverty,
> _Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding_ and it occurred to me that Sophocles'
> play was about the state -- the founding of political power in violence and
> the consequences that inevitably flow from that foundation. One of the big
> problems with electoral democracy, it seems to me, is that each newly
> elected government sees as its primary mandate vengence against the agenda
> of the previous administration. That is to say, each new tyrant "kills" "his
> father" the previous tyrant. Perhaps the civil service is Jocasta in this
> tragedy. ;-)
Certainly Dubya Rex hasn't admitted recognizing his "mother".
What do I mean by that?
I had completely forgotten Clinton's attack to block Iraq's
WMD programs:
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/12/19/fp1s1-csm.shtml
(1) Why hasn't Bush reminded us of this? What is his purpose
in our forgetting this?
(2) Why doesn't Bush simply follow in Clinton's (and the
Isrealis'...) footsteps and blow away Iraq's WND facilities
and stop megaphoning out of his facal orifice? Perhaps the
banal truth simply is that Bush's main need is to vent the
gases in his head to try to reduce the pressure gradient
between inside and outside.
I had completely forgotten about Clinton's little Iraq War
of 1998. The Christian Science Monitor is often a
good source of unbiased news reportage, I think.
Those POTUSes who do not remember the past get to have
a free hand with a clear conscience.
(--Apocryphal)
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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