America’s Blinders

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“Now that most Americans no longer believe in the war, now that they no longer trust Bush and his Administration, now that the evidence of deception has become overwhelming (so overwhelming that even the major media, always late, have begun to register indignation), we might ask: How come so many people were so easily fooled?” — Howard Zinn (The Progressive)

As FmH readers will discern, I have become unbearably bored by coverage of what is wrong with American foreign policy. Enough already; it does no good, even if the damnable public opinion polls establish to their heart’s content that the public have finally turned against the Iraqi debacle (and, BTW, there is far less evidence that the public are seriously questioning the broader premise of the War onTerror® as a whole…), there seems to be no way that translates into stopping the killing.

I normally derive a great deal of satisfaction from saying ‘I told you so’ [hint: FmH’s archives go back to November, 1999] but am suffused with impotent rage that no one was listening even to far more cogent voices than mine who were horrified from the moment it was clear what a central role imperious bullshitting bullying adventurism would play in the Bush administration’s gameplan.

What’s wrong with the psyche of the American people for swallowing all the pig swill for so long is an immensely more relevant question, especially because they are about to do it again.