The Shaming of the Dubya

The beauty of American democracy was displayed in its full glory on November 7th, when we the people intervened on behalf of our nation and overthrew a maladroit administration. The beauty of our system of government is not in the permanency of a governing philosophy, it is its agility to course correct when beset by a failed doctrine.

The radio waves and television stations are full of simpletons such as Limbaugh, Hannity, Krauthammer et al, who cheered on the sidelines for this inherently flawed administration’s incompetent Middle East grand design. Apparently shame having failed as an elixir to their inanity, they now spout unwanted advice of how to get out of a disaster that they helped to steer us into. This is akin to doctor, guilty of malpractice, approaching the same wounded patient with a machete; after bleeding our soldiers and treasury, please sirs and madams have the decency to shut up.

Over the past 6 years, we have been subjected to insults of cowardice and libeled as traitors for grasping the depth of this war’s injury to our nation and calling for those who were entrusted at the helm of the ship to be held accountable. As the nation slowly woke up to the calamity of the administration and their sycophant’s course of action, every image of 911 was conjured up in order to lull the public to slumber. There are those whose support of this historical hamartia is implausible; wed to Bush based on personal affinity and religious zeal, unabated injury to our nation will not prevent a quarter amongst us to inanely insist on supporting this executive chimera. Though the founding fathers were afraid to imperil the republic’s health at the hands of the “ignorant mass”, their abiding faith in the veracity of ideas to win out in the public arena led to inception of our democracy. Our democracy survives on the basis of at least 51% overcoming the inertia of group think and discerning substance from Fox news propaganda.

What we need now is sober judgment, the era of Play Station foreign policy has drawn nigh. History will hang this epic failure on the necks of the neocons such as Wolfowitz, Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc., and Bush will ultimately be remembered as the avant-garde Nero that he is. Nonetheless, the reward of victory is not a mandate to relish in power or to gloat at past failures. The Democrats have been handed a heavy responsibility, to save our soldiers from the horrors of IEDs and to minimize the loss of Iraqi lives. Lest we be fooled, there is no panacea to the blunder of Bush’s war. The outcomes vary from bleak to catastrophic, and the options are equally harrowing. The hope of the nation lies not in the idea of a miraculous turnaround; rather it lies in the expectations that in matters of war, decision are based on sound judgment instead of quixotic schemes. With the rejection of the extreme right wing’s doctrine, we resoundingly responded to Ben Franklin’s query—our republic, through the fog of lies and deception, we kept it.