“Both presidents deserve credit,” said Ari Fleischer, Bush’s press secretary
Yes. One for having the vision to create the mayhem under the false principle of Us/Them; of ‘if you are not with us you are against us’ and later, having failed in the mission of capturing the Evil Man, abandoned the mission claiming it never was important after all. Like so much pain that Bush inflicted on the nation and the world, eventually leaving office , like some dark Mr Magoo oblivious to the destruction left in his wake. It was left to Obama and his administration to stem the conflagration and ultimately completed the failed and abandoned mission.
What happens now is what is important. Is there any chance that closing this bloody era of trillions of dollars and millions of people left in death, grief, and pain as a consequence of the failed policies of the various fundamentalists from each side. Fundamentalism’s that each are pretenders to the claim of having “The Truth” and thus the sanction of their ‘god’ to kill and maim all those who do not…
Is there a chance that we might be quiet long enough to listen enough to learn enough of what it is that has been driving this falsely named “War on Terror”?
I wish. I hope so. I dont think so.
We do seem to be too busy cheering this great moment of death. When we should be circumspect. Our delight should be not that Bin Laden was killed, but for the chance that maybe we can move past this train wreck of the fundamentally flawed “War on Terror” into something that may actually accomplish something besides spawning more endless war.
I do not mean to say the killing was wrong, or even not necessary. Maybe it was. It probably was. That major open wound of the epochal period of the Bush Doctrine needed to be finally sutured.
But it is not all that needs to happen. Nor all that needed to happen.
If it happens to be the closing of that horrid chapter started by the silliness of our own foolish fundamentalists, and the beginning of closing down our toxic wars…If it happens to be the time when wisdom began to have a voice in how we conduct ourselves in these treacherous days… (Not just the wars, but more our social/civilization issues)…then it is a beginning.
If it happens to perpetuate more death, a rise of a new Islamic leader on one side, the escalation of the drones of death on the other…If sometime later we look back on this day as nothing more than the escalation of the battle of fundamentalists we will also look on this day as just another in a series of missed opportunities.
