Chekhov's Mistress
Progress is Just Another Word For I Think You Are All Fools
I’ve been busy with a project lately with no time left for posts, but I could not help myself this morning when I saw that our President is telling the country that those 34 dead people in Iraq are signs of progress.
“The more progress we make on the ground, the more free the Iraqis become, the more electricity is available, the more jobs are available,the more kids that are going to school, the more desperate these killers become…”
I just don’t get the connection. I can hear the killers now, (translated in my mind from Arabic): “Damn those Americans, If theysend one more Iraqi child to school, we will shell a hotel!”
Okay, so I’m not much of a political humorist, but time is short and this happy face the administration is putting on grows more absurd by the day. Colin Powell put on his best poker face on Meet the Press last weekend to dismiss all the deaths and glorify our progress – he’s probably the most disappointing to me, because I thought he had more integrity than that. He seems to be displaying more loyalty to the administration than to the country.
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: October 28, 2003
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Dismal/Dismaler: Econ/Politics
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