Statecraft Informer

Sparxafire!

I swear. Your president’s approval ratings are going up! Supposedly, the reason is that the White House is doing a better job communicating progress and success in the Iraq war. Really?

Painful as it may be, I must point out that informed statecrafters do not approve of the war… let alone a battle here or there, or some ghoulish, meaningless measure of “success.” So how can a thinking person decide, “Hm, they say the war is going better; doin’ a helluva job, Bushy.” I feel sorry when I see Republican statespersons trying to have a conversation about the Iraq war. Just having the conversation serves to legitimize the war when, in fact, it would never occurred to that statesperson to launch such a war.

I’m afraid this bump in your president’s approval rating is systemic of the same kind of thought processing that got us into the war in the first place… that is, no thought at all! No memory. No critical thinking. No reflection about the balance between oil and human life… on and on.

I’m further afraid it is this type of non-thinking that will skate us through next year’s election cycle. The sad part, you see, is that a thoughtless populace gets what it deserves…. Sigh..