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| Written by Earl Hiatt / Community Columnist | |
| Friday, 07 September 2007 | |
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War, reality rarely in sync  Earl Hiatt Unilaterally, the U.S. has decided to build a missile shield for the Czech Republic and Poland to “protect” them from a missile attack by Iran. Russia has strongly protested this action and suggests that if we carry it out, it will add some missiles for its own protection. Why Iran would want to strike these countries (even if it could) to me is a mystery. According to Iran, it only wants to develop atomic power (and, we insist, bombs soon after), and we are told this is saber rattling. We describe the fact that we have two or three carrier groups off Iran’s coast with atomic bombs as purely peaceful and defensive. Most of the presidential candidates brag that they would not hesitate to use atomic weapons as a first-strike option. Hillary and her hawkish left-wing constituency are but a milder version of the fiercely nationalistic Republican fundamentalists hicks, who positively welcome nuclear devastation as a sign of the “end times” and the second coming of Christ. A report on the war in Iraq will be presented to Congress on Monday, and it will probably say we are “making progress” and must “stay the course” to eventually achieve “victory.” Yet, the number of terrorists in the world continues to rise, and most logical people agree it will only get worse the longer we stay in Iraq. We are expending 250,000 rounds of small arms ammo for every insurgent killed, which has to be some kind of record. Unfortunately, producing armaments makes jobs and is an essential part of our economy, so let’s have war. It seems our leaders are almost desperate to start a war with Iran — and that Iran’s “belligerence” forces us to give its neighbors $20 billion in armaments for their “defense,” including the F-22, our newest fighter plane, which we don’t even need. And, to keep it balanced, we must give Israel a comparable amount. I think the following passage by columnist Gary Kamiya readily sums up Bush’s reality: “The question of how a president’s faith affects his decisions is, of course, a matter of conjecture. But there is ample evidence that Bush’s delusions about Iraq are inseparable from his religious faith. “Of course, there are millions of deeply religious people whose faith has not led them to abandon reason. But Bush’s faith appears to have only deepened his native arrogance. He sees it as a form of humility, a poor sinner’s acceptance of God’s will. Bush believes that God is on his side in this war, and that everything will therefore come out all right in the end. He does not care about the real world — because for him, it isn’t the true reality. “The war in Iraq, that horror in which real humans beings are dying, is merely a stage before good finally triumphs over evil. And if that victory does not take place in our lifetime, it doesn’t matter. All that matters is that he fought the good fight. This is why he did not concern himself, and still doesn’t, with details such as whether this war is winnable in any non-biblical timeframe.” This war, like most, can be summed up in two words: complete madness. Earl Hiatt, Community columnist
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