I heard some grousing by 'conservatives' about the latest flap over the 'docu-drama' about the days leading up to 9/11: seems they cannot understand why people would be upset about some editorializing, "poetic license" with the facts taken by ABC when they didn't get upset by distortions made by Michael Moore in his attack on GWB. Am I missing something, or isn't there a big difference between what we expect from a partisan, independent filmmaker who makes no secret of his point of view and a huge corporation that employs a public resource, the airwaves, to broadcast its pseudo-documentaries?
GWB has informed us that our "War on Terror" is the central ideological struggle of the 21st century. Well, how come the most signal success so far in that war, the foiling of the plot in London, was carried out by the old fashioned grunt work of patient policemen? More glorious to declare war and thrash about. I suspect the apocalyptic rhetoric feels good to a guy who has no problem with Biblical notions of Creation. Let's hope he doesn't get itchy to bring on the End of Days even faster than it might otherwise come!
I can no longer sit back and allow terrorist infiltration, terrorist indoctrination, terrorist perversion and the international terrorist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids- General Jack D. Ripper
2 comments:
Excellent tie-in to Dr. Strangelove.
Don't you feel these guys are taking it right there? I often think The Omega Man, with "martial law is now nationwide," is perfectly fitting for our times.
Is GWB our Malthius?
Glad you liked it. I have not seen Omega Man.
Perhaps you missed this column by Charles Krauthammer on 9/15...here's a snippet:
"Then there is the larger danger of permitting nuclear weapons to be acquired by religious fanatics seized with an eschatological belief in the imminent apocalypse and in their own divine duty to hasten the End of Days."
Now, whom do you imagine he was describing? It wasn't GWB.
Lichanos
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