Logical Consequences: Enemies, Frenemies and Foes

Political Waves by Judith Gale

By Judith Gayle | Political Waves

I suspect that most of you reading this today are exhausted by daily news and disgusted by the politics that drive it. We’ve long since lost the edge of hysteria used to manipulate us post-9/11, and if we’ve grown at all during the ensuing years, come to recognize any hint of war drums in the thread of white-noise behind government announcements. The 34th President of the United States warned us about the growing influence of the military-industrial complex in 1961, so we’ve had over fifty years to chew on that information, along with four major wars and countless skirmishes and military actions to illustrate our growing reliance on violence to both define and enrich ourselves.

Political Blog, News, Information, Astrological Perspective.Ten presidents later, we’re still chewing on the same old stuff; we know it when we taste it, don’t we? Tastes like war and rumors of war, and, although many of us are disappointed by Obama’s declaration of … whatever that was, this week … against ISIS and anyone who threatens American interests, reinvigorating the War on Terror, I’d be really surprised if you hadn’t seen it coming. Me? I’m surprised it took so long.

This is America we’re talking about, “the land of the free and the home of the brave” (with neither of those attributes carefully scrutinized nor fully comprehended), and the political party that’s been screaming about the lack of American leadership and the decline of American influence in the world has been relentless in its criticism of our president’s international lack of aggression. The first ISIS beheading was enough for them to implode, the second was a bridge too far. (Yet, if you will pardon the candor, is a quick beheading any less barbaric — any less brutal and unforgivable — than years spent in solitary confinement, one’s mind slowly slipping sideways?)

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