The demise of logic, sanity and innocence. Part II
Continued. Read Part I of the article here
The degeneration of logic, sanity and innocence has caused enormous chasms in the smooth configuration of normal life and in this chapter we cite three more logic deficient frustrations which society appears unwilling or unable to cope with.
Recent years have taught us a great deal concerning the seasoning that can be cultivated within the meaning of words, in particular words that have been used by this administration to promote its agenda, while purporting to provide up front truth for the matter under review. The word "Victory" comes to mind along with its mirror image "Mission Accomplished", words which were punctuated by the infamous and absurd farce of this President masquerading as a fighter pilot while emerging triumphantly from a passenger seat. It was not, however, totally illogical to use the word Victory in that context, since there was the appearance of a victorious military conclusion in the classic sense of the word, though far from the absolute Victories achieved by Generals MacArthur or Eisenhower.
Years have elapsed since the carrier embarrassment and the word Victory nevertheless continues to be uttered as if it had not been used in the first instance. We are therefore compelled to assume that, having previously achieved victory, the war we are now fighting must be a new undeclared war, one that began seamlessly as the original was being presumptuously terminated.
Logic might suggest to the White House occupants and their many compliable Senators that, for historical purposes, the current conflict in Iraq cannot have victory as its objective, since that has already been certified. A new desirable objective should now logically be targeted, a word more in keeping with current conditions, a word that is seldom heard in the White House, and that word is PEACE. This word, regretfully, was assumed by the White House intellectually sterile proponents of war to be an automatic reward for victory, while forgetting or ignoring potential recriminations based on the legendary actions of the invaded French in World War II, with an underground movement known as "La Resistance".
It has become increasingly evident to a strong majority of caring people that the inevitable process for peace in Iraq is to get the uninvited mercenaries and their accompanying armies out of the cities and off the streets and highways, as a preliminary step to getting back to their homes and families where they belong, and let some of the world's oldest societies find their own ways to deal with their problems which have plagued them off and on for close to fourteen hundred years. These problems will not be solved by the administration's retinue of successive imperious generals, and bands of undisciplined enforcers.
Even in a civil war, the militant factions of Iraq would be unlikely to be the cause of more deaths in the future than have been directly or indirectly caused by Americans to date. One thing is clear. The Iraqi could do no worse than we have been shown by the imported brains that have supervised the creation of the current insanity, and we ask, Where is the logic in expecting that the willing perpetrators of such an incomprehensible disaster could possibly find sufficient resolve and wisdom to contain this inferno, which they have themselves kindled and fanned to ashes?
In 1789 a Second Amendment was added to the U.S. constitution after considerable debate and fine-tuning. The context of the times is ably reflected by these words in Wikipedia: "The "Militia Clause" gave Congress control over the militia with the States retaining authority to appoint officers and to impose the training specified by Congress. To ensure that the militia could not be disarmed under any pretext, the right of the people to keep and bear arms was guaranteed in the Second Amendment".
The leaders of the individual States realized that a strong central government was essential to the peaceful governance of this newly formed nation, and it needed to be supported by a strong military. Each State then had its own "Militia" which was a cross between the State police of today and the National Guard, and problems kept flaring up between States though kept reasonably in check. It was agreed to form a strong military backed central Government and the second amendment was enacted for the express purpose of ensuring that each State would maintain its legal right to defend its territory against a possible intrusion by any radicalized future central government. It reads as follows:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
That is all of it. There is nothing else. The Gun addicted aficionados of the U.S., ably supported by the gun Barons who make them and their well-heeled lobbyists, have for years read and interpreted the words of the Second Amendment in a manner clearly unlike the meaning and intent of the legislators. They specifically dispel the comma after the word "State" and substitute a period for their purposes, hoping that no one will notice and ignoring
