At 12:53 PM 2/23/04 +0000, someone lacking the stones to even sign his post
wrote:
>
>I can see poker playin' Walt turning over command to his co-pilot,
>puttin' on his Stetson, stridin' past the bombadier to the hatch
>area, climbin' aboard the nuke and gettin' ready for judgement day.
You're closer to the mark than you know. When my number came up in the
draft, the government decided that because of my background in chemistry
and physics, I should become one of the officers who activate tactical
nukes in the field. As a result, I know first hand the soul searching that
goes with that job. It's not something to make light of.
Personally, I came to the conclusion that I couldn't trust the
government
to the degree necessary in order to be able to carry out an order to launch
a nuke. In time, I was able to get a discharge, and left the country in
order to help build a new one in the Caribbean.
As an expatriot, I don't care who wins; I just think it's a shame they
can't both lose. But what scares me more than the venality of the
politicians on both sides of the isle is the inability of most people to
look at the contest with any more insight than that exhibited by the World
Wide Wrestling Federation's loyal viewers who have to paint everything in
black and white, and how just can't seem to grasp the subtle concept of
someone being an equal opportunity disbeliever.
About 140 years ago, a group of federalists took over the government
and
waged a war of conquest which destroyed more than a million lives thereby
establishing the principal of rule by conquest as the foundation for the
federal government. If they could kill hundreds of thousands of Southrons,
and they did, then it's not much of a stretch for them to continue on that
path killing anyone else who gets in their way.
I'm always bemused by Northerners who think that their side "won" that
war; the winners were the military-industrial complex, which hasn't looked
back since.
I don't have a problem with folks who either support or oppose the
current
expedition on pragmatic grounds, since this is the sort of business which
has been the focus of the federal government for more than a century. What
does scare me is the folks who think it's morally okay for their side's
President to blow people to pieces but somehow not okay for the other
side's President to do the same.
Those who were not publicly outraged over Clinton's pattern of bombing
civilian targets should recognize that their silence opened this door, and
to at least have the decency to not whine about Bush using the same
justifications for following in Clinton's footsteps.
These matters are way too serious for such partisan nonsense.
Walt
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