by koreyel
Bob Herbert of the NYT continues to smash the Bush Administration with nearly divine inspiration.
His latest seems almost like an artful montage of paragraphs borrowed from the Moon of Alabama.
It is rare to see a columnist be so deadly blunt:
Although he died bravely, Lieutenant VandeGeer’s death was as senseless as those of the 58,000 who died before him in the fool’s errand known as Vietnam.
And then this:
Since we learned nothing from Vietnam, we are doomed to repeat its agony, this time in horrifying slow-motion in Iraq.
Fool’s errand… We learned nothing… we are doomed to repeat its agony.
Wow. Herbert’s pen is as far from elite as it is from effete. He can flat out write when he gets irked up.
Along these lines I sense that the rage at Bush’s Iraq-mess is regaining traction. The reality that the war is going badly is leaking with a steady hiss into the mainstream. Anger is redoubling. People are wearing red on Fridays because they are seething red everyday of the week.
Anger is a powerful human force. It can move elections.
Think of it this way: there are probably at least 3 billion people who wake up everyday damning the very names of Bush and Cheney. That’s a lot of semi-focused consciousness.
Would that we could all coordinate our thoughts at one chosen time and chant a select group of powerful mantras. I suspect… Bush-Cheney would break out in hives, if not shrivel up and blow away. As it is, our semi-focused rage may be enough to sweep these criminals into history’s ashcan.
So keep on keeping on. Wear red. Feel red. You have the right and the duty to be enraged. Focus your anger like a laser beam on the right foreheads. They’ve earned your wrath, your disgust, and your condemnation.
Be beautifully furious. Justice may depend upon your rage.