The Mark(ings) of Zorro

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What's the Matter with Kansas?

Thursday, March 20, 2003

by El Zorro Viejo (aka; Jim)

So it begins
I don't have a good feeling about this. I don't think that the Iraqui's have weapons of mass destruction. I do think they'd like to have 'em, and I'm also pretty sure that they have tried to produce 'em. I just don't think that they were successful. Further, I think we are going to be the aggressor nation for no real purpose other than to soothe the Bush family's collective ego. When it comes out that, "Golly, gee...I guess ole Saddam didn't have those weapons after all, we are suddenly going to be the target of millions of Muslims who will heed the calls to jihad.

Once upon a time, when I was a kid growing up in a simpler time, one of the tenets of faith was that the U.S. had never...never...been the aggressor nation. Well, we've pretty much debunked that myth over the intervening years. However, myth though it was, it was a supportable myth. With the current war, that myth is no longer even supportable. We have fired the first shot, and the first casualty was any claim we might have had to the moral high ground vis-a-vis the use of force as a tool of national policy.

One other thing--One of the Republican slams on Clinton and the Democrats in general were that the county ws become the world's policeman. Well, Bush has just outdone anything Clinton even dreamt about in spades. We have to be very careful that we do not become the town bully, but it is appearing to the rest of the world that its a little too late for us to worry about that.

I really don't like our current unelected president very much. He has already tanked the economy. Now he is conscientiously doing his utmost to alienate most of our former allies. He is a disaster on both the home front and the international front. I worry for the future of our country...our great experiment.

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