Where are we going?

Does someone know where we are going but just won't tell us? The national debt is out of control and the dollar is rapidly losing its value. People are losing their homes. Banks are in trouble. People are going hungry and have no medical insurance. College tuition is out of sight and still rising. We may be going to attack Iran. Does that make sense? Not to me.

At least some people seem to think the dollar could lose as much as 90% of its value (its already lost a lot). Where will this lead us? Is there going to be a recession? Does anyone know? Giving Nobel prizes to economists seems to be no more sensible that rewarding witchcraft.

There is increasing talk of impeachment. But that seems to be all it is, talk. Bush/Cheney are known to have committed impeachable offenses for years now but it seems that members of Congress don't care. In terms of our Constitution (which we used to hold sacred) they should be obliged to impeach but they just ignore it. I guess Bush has convinced them that "it's just a goddamn piece of paper." This seems to be leading us nowhere (at least for the moment).

There is more and more talk of attacking Iran although there is no evidence Iran is violating international rules about nuclear energy, and apparently also no viable evidence that they are substantially providing weapons and support to the Iraqis (in spite of Bush/Cheney's claims). It seems that no one on earth wants us to attack Iran or start another war in that part of the world - except, of course, Israel. So will we, once again, simply do their bidding. Where is this going?

Then there is the coming Annapolis meetings which are being touted as important and the beginnings of a two state solution to the Palestinian/Israeli problem. It seems like Bush, having allowed this problem to fester for the first seven years of his administration, decided one day that he'll solve the problem in the last year of his administration. Rather surprisingly, it appears that some of the Arab states will attend. Even Syria has agreed to attend, provided the Golan Heights is on the agenda (it is not clear that it will be). Hamas, the legally and democratically elected government of the Palestianians will not be attending (I'm not sure they were even invited). Bush, who has blatantly sided with the Israelis for the last seven years, and who has nowadays no credibility whatsoever, apparently naively believes that this meeting will actually have positive results. I gather he thinks that solving this Palestinian/Israeli conflict is basically no more of a problem than umpiring a baseball game. So where do you think this is leading?

Having disturbed the Russian Bear by persisting in a scheme to locate missile bases near the Russian border, as a defense against non-existant threats from Iran, using technology that doesn't work, he has started a new cold war and forced Putin to renew military activities that had been in remission for years. By his obsession with containing Iran Bush has also pushed Putin (and China, too) into the arms of the Iranians (as both countries of course have important economic ties with Iran). So where is this leading us?

It appears that Rumsfeld who might have been arrested for war crimes in France was given some kind of immunity. I don't know the details of this but I find it disturbing. There is little doubt that Rumsfeld is guilty of war crimes, at the least, torture. So why should he be given immunity? And will this kind of immunity also be given to Bush/Cheney and the other American war criminals? Need I remind you that neither the Germans or the Japanese were given immunity for their war crimes. So where might this be leading us?

In fact, I am beginning to wonder if we as a nation are going anywhere at all. Of course it is saturday and one can't expect much but football on saturday. And tomorrow is sunday, can't expect much on sunday except football. Congress is on their holiday vacation so you can't expect them to do anything until they return, but when they return they'll just return to their fundraising and grooming each other like a bunch of baboons. And of course Christmas in only a month away, can't expect much between now and Christmas except shopping and office parties. Then there is New Year's celebrations, can't expect anything until after the first of the year. By then everyone will be so hungover they won't realize what is happening to them until it is too late and we'll just go on blundering our way into national oblivion and the cesspool of history, just another failed empire.

LKBIQ:
"The fearful question confronts us: Have our problems got beyond our control?"
Sir Winston Churchill