Hope
and Change? Not So Much
P.
Schultz
November
2, 2012
There is little that I need to add to this assessment of
Obama. I would just point out that in my local paper, the Winston Salem
Journal, there is an article today, showing pictures of Obama and Romney, over
the headline “Obama and Romney: I’m the real candidate of change.” Well, I
cannot not think of much that more clearly illustrates the farcical character
of our politics. For me, I have the feelings of betrayal like those I had when
I finally could recognize that my older brother – and 58,000 other young
Americans – had died in Vietnam because of the delusions and mechanizations of
those who governed us. It is simply amazing to me how well “real reality” can
be disguised and people misled by those who claim to serve them.
“A
recent series of articles in the Washington Post, among other
publications, has revealed the extent to which the Obama administration has not
merely entrenched Bush administration policies but developed a new "matrix"
or "playbook" (as Chief Counter-Terrorism Adviser John O Brennan
describes it) to ensure that perceived threats and enemies can be disposed of
in a manner that is "so bureaucratically, legally and morally sound that
future administrations will follow suit".
“The
"disposition matrix" that has been developed is a
"next-generation targeting list" that supposedly pairs the name of
every suspected terrorist with all the possible ways in which that person can
be disposed of, whether through drones, special operations, local government
actions or capture. The development of this matrix signals recognition that the
US will be disposing of perceived enemies for years to come, with no end in
sight.
“As
one senior official explained, "We can't possibly kill everyone who wants
to harm us [now]... We're not going to wind up in 10 years in a world of
everybody holding hands and saying, 'We love America'."
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