Bush: State of the Union. Preview.
After a long year end break and a few technical difficulties here I am back to comment on whatever strikes my fancy.
And could there be a better day to re-start than the State of The Union Day? No I didn’t think so. What do you think George will say? After all he didn’t actually accomplish anything this past year. Nothing happened. His agenda, if ever there really was one, disappeared in a vapor as soon as announced it. Or rather it went up in some oily Iraqi smoke.
The truth is that whatever Bush says for the rest of his miserable life he will be judged as the idiot who bungled the war on terror and started the war in Iraq. That’s quite a millstone. A man with any kind of a conscience would be humbled by the enormity of the failure of American foreign policy. That man would surely be spurred to find a solution that did not wreak of the stubborn defiance embodied in the escalation Bush is advocatiing. He would confer with Congress rather than lie to it and ignore it. He would seek the broadest counsel from the experts that abound in America’s think tanks, universities, military clubs, and foreign policy institutions. He would not hunker down and try to neuter critics, he would listen and broaden, he would not narrow and snivel. Sad to say Bush is a venal fool. He has no character, no depth, no humanity, just an unflinching self-admiration and a massively overactive desire to prove to his family that he does belong in the White House despite all the ribald jibes slung his way by the fraternity gang and his old business buddies. He is a catastrophic fool of historic proportions. He ranks with the sophists who sent ancient Athens off to war with triumphant images and hopes of glory, but merely managed to bankrupt their state instead and after humiliation at war oversaw the collapse of the world’s original democracy and its capitulation to its Spartan rivals.
Yes Bush is that bad. His stench would embolden Virgil to write the Aenead over with an Iraqi twist. His incompetence would cause even Cervantes to catch his breath. And his steady, ignorant and vainglorious treachery would make Iago seem the very icon of loyalty.
Yes Bush is that bad. We are in purgatory. We are walking with Dante. And we see that famous sign: “Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch’entrate!”
Abandon hope all ye who enter here!
What could a fool like Bush possibly have to say to us? His press corps tells us he will focus on domestic issues. Look out for a disaster near you …. George has so fouled up foreign policy he’s decided to shift his attention to us here at home. Someone help us because we know Bush won’t. He’s pitifully inept. He should keep his mouth shut and clean up his mess. Of course he won’t. He’ll pretend that all’s fine with the world. He will try to divert our attention from the cancer his adminstration has become. He will glide right by the incompetence and corruption, the vice and the illegality, the wire-tapping and the gulag, and all the other abominations his appalling tenure has brought us. Instead he will smile wanly at the camera and talk about domestic issues.
Yes Bush is that bad.
Abandon hope all ye who enter here!
Really.