Before I sit down this week to write about our reflections on our trip to the beautiful beaches of Goa I must turn quickly to something more important – The Bush War Machine. Not being satisfied having been responsible for the deaths of at least 150,000 innocent Iraqi civilians (and by some counts many many more) in our name, this lame duck administration with a disapproval rating of 60% and worse is cranking up the rhetoric against Iran. Having liberated the earthly souls of so many Iraqis using American and British tax money it’s not hard to see what the plan for Iran is.
According to an article in this weeks New York Times Magazine, we humans have an innate moral instinct. The article talks about how we have a moral “switch” that can get flipped where we know something is ‘just wrong’ without even being able to explain why. Well, my friends, the time has come for that switch to flip before it is well and truly too late for all of us.
The Iraq war isn’t just Bush’s and Blair’s war, it’s our war now and if the lame duck president takes us into Iran, that will be on us as well. We elected these guys (more than once), we financed the wars (well, our children really have, we’ve just made the decision for them) and we’ve stood by and watched as the spectacle has unfolded.
In a speech this week in Abu Dhabi, lame duck president Bush stated that, “Iran’s actions threaten the security of nations everywhere”, and appealed directly to the Iranian people saying they had a right to live under a government “that listens to your wishes”. Well so do we, and right now it seems to me that our so-called leaders are leading us further toward ‘threatening the security of nations everywhere’ in our name, with our money and, unless we speak up now, with our tacit blessing.
“People should not be afraid of their governments,
governments should be afraid of their people”
