Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Bush Administration Forced to be Reasonable
In a HUGE step for this administration, the Pentagon recently announced that it will abide my the minimum human requirements outlined by the Geneva convention (of which the US is a signatory). Thank God. Guantanamo has been a scourge on the face of this nation for years now, undercutting our efforts to promote the rule of law and stoking the fires of anti-American animosity burning so brightly in so many places in the world. If this country wants to remain the "light unto other nations" that it has been for so long, we can't afford to become jaded and cynical. We need to continue to rule based our ideologies of freedom and democracy - of inalienable rights and civil liberties.
In the past few years, under the Bush Administration, we have had a foreign policy of "F*&CK OFF, other countries... we'll do whatever we want" and a domestic policy of restricting human freedoms and civil rights for political gain, acquiescing to the ever-present demands of the top 1% from their tax responsibilities while taxing working-class citizens into the ground. Thankfully, the pressures of approval rates in the low 30s and high 20s, a fracturing majority party and the discovery of deeply entrenched corruption, Bush has decided to give in to the demands of the Democrats, who have only ever asked Bush to be a reasonable human being. Score one for the Democrats. Score one for the Progressives. I can only hope that this is a movement towards a more reasonable government and less hypocrisy. We grandstand and scream at the Chinese and Russian governments for their human rights abuses. Finally, we've started to move towards eliminating our own.... now lets see if we can elect a government willing to enfranchise all our citizens.
In the past few years, under the Bush Administration, we have had a foreign policy of "F*&CK OFF, other countries... we'll do whatever we want" and a domestic policy of restricting human freedoms and civil rights for political gain, acquiescing to the ever-present demands of the top 1% from their tax responsibilities while taxing working-class citizens into the ground. Thankfully, the pressures of approval rates in the low 30s and high 20s, a fracturing majority party and the discovery of deeply entrenched corruption, Bush has decided to give in to the demands of the Democrats, who have only ever asked Bush to be a reasonable human being. Score one for the Democrats. Score one for the Progressives. I can only hope that this is a movement towards a more reasonable government and less hypocrisy. We grandstand and scream at the Chinese and Russian governments for their human rights abuses. Finally, we've started to move towards eliminating our own.... now lets see if we can elect a government willing to enfranchise all our citizens.
