Most people who die in a war are civilians. George Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Tony Blair, & Tayyip Erdogan want to kill hundreds of innocent people or more. While you & I watch. I wonder, if I was there in Baghdad, watching my government bomb fruit vendors & gas station attendants, whether I could even begin to think that what Bush wants to do is just.
From here, Mission District, San Francisco, sometimes I can think Bush honestly does think he’s doing the right thing, that on some level perhaps he has good intentions. I think most people want to do good things, for their communities, or the world. Perhaps Bush wanted to be president so he could make America better somehow, whatever “better” means to him. Seems plausible from my desk chair.
But would it seem plausible that this man who rails against terrorists all the time could be honest, now that he wants to knowingly bomb, kill, burn, maim, & starve people? He really, really does. Sure, he has other objectives as well, but the fact remains he is about to commit atrocities, burn people in their homes. And he knows it. And so do all the people who are helping him.
And hell, I’m still paying my taxes, his salary. All their salaries. What am i thinking? Is this really supposed to seem ok?
Stop! God fucking dammit stop! Don’t do this! IT’S NOT OK.
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Peter, I’m interested that you see that these people doing evil might actually want to do good. I’d go a little further — they might even think they’re doing good, although it makes no sense to you and me. Their ability to focus on their “objectives” while ignoring the horror and their (our, aughh!) responsibility is one of the symptoms of the dissociation that is itself so evil. And then there’s the astonishing immaturity of world leaders who believe solutions include violence, coercion, chauvinism, revenge, and greed. So much painful and scary; we fight also by means of our feelings and our connections. Love, Suzanne
Posted by: Suzanne Leonora | May 17, 2003 10:22 PM