Comments Posted By Kizilbash
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HOLY CHRIST! WHERE HAS JOE KLEIN BEEN THE LAST 8 YEARS?
While I agree with your premise that anyone just noticing now that we're morphing into an entity that is hard to understand, we must not forget that many Americans, myself included, were behind our president after 9/11; however, as evidence now points out beyond any shred of a doubt that our president and his WH staff circumvented, twisted, or downright violated numerous domestic and international laws and treaties and then lied about it. As late as 2006, our president looked the camera in the eye and stated, "The United States does not torture."
As s disabled veteran who re-enlisted on a frozen hill overlooking North Korea's propaganda village near Panmunjom, voicing my opinions over the inconsistencies in the language used by the administration unleashed ferocious, irrational attacks on my character, intelligence, and patriotism by those "shallow" conservatives who were apparently willing to apologize for or defend anything conducted or suggested by the administration. The worst thing about these attacks was the unerringly similar verbiage and accusations, as if everything was scripted. Efforts to enter into respectful exchanges were invariably reduced--in quick order--to ad hominem assaults described above.
Without a doubt, things have changed in our country since 9/11 and intelligent, thoughtful, and humble conservative friends of mine agree with me that it's largely a by-product of the successful right-wing radio personalities along with the dominant political ascendence of the Bush II WH and Republican control of Congress. And it appears now that the election of Obama has infuriated the same group of citizens who have become unhinged as you described so accurately. My wife and I are fearful that the racism toward Arabs and attacks on Muslims in general have re=opened some racial doors we had hoped were closed. My greatest fear is that our past, the ugly parts of it, may be the model of our future.
Comment Posted By Kizilbash On 4.09.2009 @ 19:32
