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So, President Bush thinks that the things which happened after we pulled out of Viet Nam were the fault of the US, and that if the “Iraquis” decide to behave similarly we’ll be at fault there, too. What? WTF? The Vietnamese had choices about how to act, and made come pretty shitty choices. The Iraquis have the same choices, and if they decide to be cruel to each other, that’s on them. Whatever happened to personal responsibility? Mr. Bush said that after we left Viet Nam new words came along: “boat people;” “re-education camps;” etc. And???? So??? Because of that my neighbor’s son must die? What an irresponsible President and government we have.
Here’s my opinion: Neither I, nor anyone else in my country, has the right, obligation, or power to keep people elsewhere in the world from being cruel to each other.
The world is full of sadists, shitheels, tyrants, megalomaniacs, murderers and all manner of assholes. Our laws do not extend beyond our borders, and we have a hard enough time here at home keeping order. I refuse to step into the moral quagmire of the rhetorical question of being our brother’s keeper. It is a pure fantasy that we can make all the evil in the world go away, pure fantasy.
More Americans dying in “Iraq” is not going to accomplish a damn thing. After all the years and blood since we went in to take away Saddam’s “weapons of mass destruction” and kick him out of power, “Iraq” does not, in point of fact, have a government. We remain an occupying power, without the ability to make that shithole a working nation, let alone a “democracy.”
So, I wonder where Mr. Bush ranks on that recent survey about Americans and whether or not they read regularly. I’d bet he hasn’t read a book in years, if ever.
