BRUCE | 2005-12-21
IN MY OPINION, Bruce has just completed the list of what we have been doing wrong.
Shari told us it's hard and she doesn't see much hope.
Those are two of hte mandtras taht have made the world what it is today.
Antonio followed with the Bitching Syndrome.
Now Mark says,
"Do you just want to restrict your method of stating the obvious about race, or expand it to other, related areas?"
"For instance, I think it's obvious that the Iraq war is a bad one because Bush didn't get the constitutionally required declaration of war. It's not the lies about WMD, nor the question of him getting approval from other countries, nor even the question of who's interests we are really fighting for, although those are all important in a small picture kind of way. The big picture on our wars is that every single one from Korea till today didn't go through the constitutionally required channel. Most of todays peaceniks want to stop the Iraq war, I want to create an atmosphere of understanding where the people will no longer allow any Korean/Vietnam/Iraq wars on legal grounds. Whether Bush lied about some detail has nothing to do with the next series of war and therefor contitutes a distraction from the big picture. I want to focus on the big picture."
It reminds me of an spisode of Blackadder I was just watching. The World War I Blackadder is informed by the general that there is a new strategy.
Blackadder says, "Would this new strategy consist of marching slowly across No Man's Land against the enemy?"
The general is upset. This plan was Top Secret. How did Blackadder know it?
"Because, general, it isthe same plan we usd the last seventeen times."
The general replies, "Yes, and that is what is so brilliant about it. The enemy will never expect us to use the same strategy AGAIN!"
I know I am being unfair to everyody here, but Mark I was here when the Korean War was on. Nobody wanted to talk about race,they wanted to talk about The Big Picture.
It is true that NOBODY declares war any more. Britain and Argentina were blasting each other out of the ocean and possibility os declaring war never even came up.
Mark, you are asking us to join in the chorus a million voices have been singing for fifty years. Do we really need ten more opponents to the Iraq War?
You are all I have. When conservatives were theorizing about a Southern Strategy, handful of us went out and got the experience with working-class conservatives that made the big difference. Then conservatives went back to telling each other how brilliant they were and how brilliant the neoconservatives,who had as much to do with the swing vote of working peopple as a pig has to do with a porcupine were.
No, we will not fit into the Big Picture. We will very much have to do our own thing.
We have to stop talking about how bad some incidents are. We have to stop thinking this is a battle that will be won or lost tomorrow. If I hear, "This is our last chance!" one more time, I'm going to puke.
You will not have an easy time. You will not make friends or impress people by how what we say fits into the Big Picture. Only you will know WHAT you have won. We will not reach an earthly paradise.
No. No. No. No. No.
Derek said it best. It is called getting all of us on the same page.