Another Look

Four legs good, two legs better

Despite the shifting rationales of the invasion of Iraq, one would have hoped that there was some essential element of America that would remain untarnished, that Bush/Cheney/Lieberman would realize the soul of America, that dream built on freedom and equality and justice for all, would not tolerate open torture, and that's why they kept it hidden for so long.

Would that it were so. Now, even the increasingly conservative Washington Post editorial page is disturbed by the prospect of a President who comes to Congress "lobbying for torture."

This is not America. I hope.

A few brave people in Congress and out, many of whom, unlike Bush/Cheney/Lieberman/Rumsfeld, served with distinction in the armed forces, are bravely standing for the America our Founding Fathers sought to create. They stand firmly opposed to those who proudly, like Cheney, embrace the dark side.

This is a war we are supposedly fighting for freedom, for democracy, to free a country and a world from those who who do unspeakable acts. Like torture prisoners. Yet if the White House is the face of America, what rings truest is the conclusion of George Orwell's Animal Farm: "No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

Had George Bush been reading Animal Farm instead of My Pet Goat on 9/11, perhaps the world would have no reason, as General Powell put it, for "beginning to doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism."

posted by Andy Mais @ 11:16 AM