2004-06-29
The Insanity of Man Knows No Bounds
by Jack Dalton
My first reaction upon
hearing of the U.S. Marine being kidnapped in Iraq and being threatened with
death if the U.S. command does not release Iraqi prisoners, well, my heart just
sank. The U.S. command will never give in to a demand like that, especially
behind that type of threat. And not for an individual Marine. Then that emotion
morphs a bit and I get real p….d for a couple of reasons and in two different
ways.
For one, I have a real
serious problem with wanna be dictators, religious zealots regardless of who
they are, and just plain old thugs and extortionists—I don’t care what flag or
banner they proclaim and wrap themselves in, a thug is a thug—that includes
those that now hold the life of a single Marine in their hands as well as those
that are responsible for that Marine being there in the first place.
Be that as it may, I’m
getting old, am in an electric wheelchair, absolutely despise Bush and the rest
of the “Mayberry Machiavelli’s” around him, was opposed to the invasion of
Iraq, and am opposed to the subsequent occupation; but this trying to use the
life of a single Marine in this manner, I could get real medieval with what I
see as a brutal, senseless murder, if in fact they do what they say they will
do.
At the very same time, I hold
the Bush Bunch absolutely and totally responsible for this mess he calls
“Operation Iraqi Freedom.” (These were the people that not long ago told
everyone to just sit down and shut up as the “grown-ups” are in charge now).
They, thru a refusal to listen to anything from anyone (including some on their
own staff) if it opposed their ideology and greed based push to invade Iraq,
have actually turned it into what it wasn’t, ground zero for “terrorism” and a showcase for how low, how inhuman, and
how brutal man can and will be to man.
And who will pay the price?
Quite possibly and sadly this young lone Marine-would that I could take his
place as I am tired of seeing young people die; Iraqis, Americans and everyone
in between. There is an element of truth behind “once a Marine always a Marine”
even for an old radical like me-and it
kills my “soul” to see anyone let alone a “fellow” Marine in this
position, one others made for him.
The only thing that I see
“Bring them on Bush” has accomplished in Iraq is to have provided the window of
opportunity for the worst in people to become the dominate behavior.
I am as angry as a man can be
that Bush put this Marine in this position. I am also as mad as hell at those
that kidnapped that Marine and think they can change anything with his
senseless murder, if in fact that does happen. One lone Marine caught in a vice
by two equally absurd and opposing forces.
How can either of them be
right when they’re both wrong?