A family member, smart enough to have employment as a research scientist, once cautioned against my poking around in my computers registry trying to fix things;” its like a great big ball of spaghetti, start cutting strands and it will never go back together right”.
The integrity of this serpentine starch could be held as metaphor of the complex components of our nation’s reputation among the nations of the world, the snippets seem unrelated at first, but none to long, the unraveling starts.
Listening to KXOT, they ran “as it happens” pretty much the Canadian equivalent of “All things considered”. Interview was with the Canadian photographer who shot the infamous photo of a dead
The other snip is explanation of why we don’t have to give a shit and why God is kicking our ass for it.
Listening to KUHF Houston TexaCUTION, one of the sponcers of NPR programming was a local company specializing in offshore drilling and national defense.
Was there not an American president, viewed both as warrior and humanitarian, who warned of the dangerous power of the “military industrial complex”.
Allowing private industry to get powerful enough to hijack our foreign policy. Allowing an image, no matter how poignant to cause us to turn our backs on the humanitarian interventions necessary in
Photo/Africa is a sin of simple fear, well practiced as of late; the industrial complex is an outgrowth of greed and pride.
And in this light we have the balls to wonder, why anyone on this planet would be pissed at us.
May God help those who deserve it.
May we work toward being deserving.
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