Individual Liberty—Progress—Humanity—Ethics—Rule of Law
"...if by a liberal they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people—their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, their civil liberties—if that is what they mean by a "liberal," then I am proud to be a liberal."
H.D.S. Greenway, columnist in the Boston Globe has a smart essay in Tuesday's paper about the strange puppet show of the CheneyBush White House. As we have been saying for months, the objectives of the Iraq War had nested within them a serious attempt to provoke war with Iran. It has always been an option for the strange neocon mind of Cheney and the almost stranger dry-drunk mind of Bush, but the problem is not only in their fevered brows, but in the retinue of the corporatist press that daily fails to drive home the point that the neocon illusion is a dangerous and probably fatal illusion for our country.
If we learned from the Vietnam War that the evening news would eventually unmask the illusions of those whom we trusted and gave license to make war, the Iraq War has shown that our reaction, our present aversion to the spectacle of bloodshed on a daily basis, is our "renunciation of reality." It is not just CheneyBush who are deluded in their narrow, belicose, imperialist, favored-by-God self-righteousness. It is not just Cheney who is certifiably mad. The insanity pervades our society and is subtly abetted by the interests of corporations whose lot was cast with the neocon imperialists under the guise of globalization.
