Only once in a while do I base a post on the writings of others; I'd rather ramble down my own paths, and triangulate premonitions of the future...
Today, however, won't be that kind of day...
I was reading Tomdispatch's daily (nearly) email, and he recommended the INFORMED COMMENT blog, run/edited/written by Juan Cole.
Yet, the post we're talking about is here@Tomdispatch.
Napoleon v Bush...And all the while we were thinking Bush was a second Hitler, joyfully authorizing torture, playing with the lives of innocent Iraqi children, and loyal, patriotic American troops and their families...
Have you started reading Cole's piece? Here's a taster for you...
French Egypt and American Iraq can be considered bookends on the history of modern imperialism in the Middle East. The Bush administration's already failed version of the conquest of Iraq is, of course, on everyone's mind; while the French conquest of Egypt, now more than two centuries past, is all too little remembered, despite having been led by Napoleon Bonaparte, whose career has otherwise hardly languished in obscurity. There are many eerily familiar resonances between the two misadventures, not least among them that both began with supreme arrogance and ended as fiascoes. Above all, the leaders of both occupations employed the same basic political vocabulary and rhetorical flimflammery, invoking the spirit of liberty, security, and democracy while largely ignoring the substance of these concepts.
Wets your whistle for more?
Here's the link again!
I will add, that as long as a C-student president, Bush the Lesser, remembers nothing of his ancestors (that isn't oil- or wealth-related!), his misAdministration, and the Congress (even this one, that we thought would balance his rages against humanity), will continue to effect error upon tragedy, disaster upon mistake, debt upon bad policies...
And our future generations around the world will pay the heavier price....
Find yourself, yourZENself, a guide: find someone who emulates that which you aspire to, can offer help to assist your acquisition of knowledge, and prepare yourself, and your family, and your friends, to become CAPABLE individuals, whose combined wisdom permits not a lame leader, a foisted sop whose intellect runs between torture, debt-sharing (on taxpayers) with his best friends and supporters, towards destruction of the American government that gave us national Parks, a minimum wage law, and the Hoover Dam...
There is a good way, a better way, a GUIDED way...
But the Leader that can bring you to it isn't running for President in 2008: yet!
Courage, Americans, courage, fellow planet-sharers...
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