What can I say? There has always been a lunatic fringe engaged in self-parody; but never in the course of American history has a fringe group dominated the news and preoccupied our thoughts as they do now. Ignored, the rabble would slink into irrelevance. I blame their ascendance and newfound legitimacy on mainstream media - shameless purveyors of drama and sensationalism and merchants of mass ignorance. I blame junk journalism.
The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who loves his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.
Reverend G R Gleig, survived the First Anglo-Afghan War to write in 1843:
...a war begun for no wise purpose, carried on with a strange mixture of rashness and timidity, brought to a close after suffering and disaster, without much glory attached either to the government which directed, or the great body of troops which waged it. Not one benefit, political or military, has Britain acquired with this war. Our eventual evacuation of the country resembled the retreat of an army defeated.
My once-great country's only hope was to remove Bush from office before his term expired to permit the early repair of the devastation he created. Now the USA is on life support.
No direct caption for the Mad Hatter. But I'd say: We're in a world of utter crazy shit that could condemn the guilty and innocent alike.
ReplyDeleteDoes a good imitation of Joe McCarthy.....
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ReplyDeleteWhat can I say? There has always been a lunatic fringe engaged in self-parody; but never in the course of American history has a fringe group dominated the news and preoccupied our thoughts as they do now. Ignored, the rabble would slink into irrelevance. I blame their ascendance and newfound legitimacy on mainstream media - shameless purveyors of drama and sensationalism and merchants of mass ignorance. I blame junk journalism.
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