The dust in Manhattan has dispersed. Our blinding tears have dried. Now we can see clearly how to respond to terrorism.
Commander in Chief George Bush sees the necessity to continue his new kind of crusade to smoke the Taliban rats out of their dirty holes and drain the stinking swamps where al-Qaida insects breed. Inspired, patriots invoke God’s blessing as they pledge allegiance to a national flag.
Blaming Americans for any world problem, Berkeley styled freedom fighters roused when famed leader Bill Clinton compared America’s Indian wars and enslavement of blacks by whites to terrorist operations, demand that we feel guilty for being alive. Pacifists filled with empathy, envisage the children at ground zero in Hiroshima and ask what, before blown into nuclear dust, their eyes last saw.
Bright-eyed, freshly booted daughters and sons innocently and optimistically march off to defend the homeland. They are fleshed embodiments of our sacred ideals – or ghosts damned to service an eternal succession of hellish wars?
Monroe
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