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Are we screwed or what?
Posted by Daryl in Politics, Senseless Rants on March 9th, 2007
Iran, North Korea, China, Russia, Afghanistan and Iraq, Iraq, Iraq. These are the things that occupy the mind of whoever it is that might be driving US foreign policy. (It certainly isn’t Dubya.)
Real Predictions for 2007
Here are some things that I think really will happen this year. Yep, really. If you don’t believe me, come back in a year and see how much I get right:
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The “I Have a Dream” speech is known by many for a couple of small pieces of it.
Witness here a man in his prime, delivering what is doubtless one of the greatest speeches of all time.
What troubles me the most about it is that this was in 1963…and more than 40 years on much of what he is railing against is still true.
Saddam is Gone…Now What?
Well, over the weekend Saddam Hussein came to the end of his rope. Literally. If you’re not too squeamish and haven’t seen the unofficial mobile phone footage of the event, I would recommend it. You can see it, among other places, at saddam.com.
Lake of Fire, Anyone?
I’m thirty-six years old. That means that my formative years were spent during the Cold War. While it wasn’t a real, ‘shooting’ war, the Cold War defined life both in the West and behind the Iron Curtain for two generations.
Make no mistake; the Soviet Union was a formidable enemy. As Communism dictates that the State controls the means of production, a Communist Government can produce whatever it wishes produced even at the expense of its own Citizenry.
So you end up with a country that has the largest naval fleet in the World, the most tanks and guns, arguably some of the best planes in the air and the most powerful rockets – whose own people have to line up for toilet paper.
No War
I see that short phrase every day on the backpacks of schoolchildren, on stickers and placards and I’ve even seen it (with my own eyes) painted blood-red on the Sydney Opera House. No War.
But just like “Make Poverty History”, do the people wearing this slogan have any real idea what it would mean if we really and truly had No War?
