War on Terror receding like the tide or a film played backwards

[yurbud]

Whether or not Obama actively helps or even tries to stop it, it seems like the War on Terror is coming apart in roughly the order that it came together.

In a way, it reminds my of a film a few years back, THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE, except instead of the monarch going mad, it was was the political establishment and for a few years, and overwhelming majority of the American public.

The first to recede was public opinion when support for the Iraq War and the Bush presidency dropped below 50% and then to about the a third--the same number as those who will support conservative priorities regardless of evidence of their epic failure and damage to our middle class, reputation in the world, and national security.

Then Bush himself was forced to acknowledge reality when he tried to negotiate for permanent bases in Iraq, and make it what the Philippines was and Germany essentially still is: a forward base to possibly invade neighbors or at a minimum, make regimes that don't toe the economic line more tentative in defying the corporate order. Instead, the Iraq parliament made it clear that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%E2%80%93Iraq_Status_of_Forces_Agreement">they wanted all of our troops out, and explicitly said that they did not want their country used as a base to destabilize, attack, or invade their neighbors.

Now the tide should be receding on Afghanistan, and Obama seems poised to try to resist that, but if Bush could not preserve the house of sand and lies that is the War on Terror with the tools of fear and a compliant media at his disposal, Obama will certainly not be able to for long.

The last moldering shipwreck currently hidden by the water from most people that will eventually make their way into the majority consciousness are the very roots and nucleus of the War on Terror, our government's failure to protect us on 9/11, whose interest that ''failure'' served.

That water will recede eventually just as it did on the Gulf of Tonkin incident used as the excuse to send troops into Vietnam was finally admitted to be a fabrication by those who served in Congress at the time and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_Incident#Later_statements_about_the_incident">confirmed by phone recordings of LBJ.

But unlike the Gulf of Tonkin where nothing actually happened, American civilians died on 9/11, and history will be far harsher to those who repeated the lies and misdirection, and because of that blood shed on American soil, the judgment of history may arrive like a tsunami while many of those responsible or complicit are still alive and even in office, picking at the driftwood and flotsam of lives they destroyed left high on the beach by their lies for something they can sell.

Telling the truth and setting things right is not simply the political establishment's moral duty and job (clearly neither of which they care about) but a matter of getting out of the way of the tsunami before it crushes them.

[Vincardog]

1. I for one hope they don't get out of the way of the tsunami before it crushes them.

[yurbud]

2. thats my feeling too.