For the Greater Good

While evil done in the name of the US is nothing new, the level of pure malignant evil is off the charts for the past four years.

A few prime examples:

1) the anti-democratic appointment of Bush into the presidency

2) the looting of the US treasury with tax cuts skewed towards the rich

3) the 9/11 attacks-- which were carried out by elements of the US government and likely facilitated by Dick Cheney

4) the anthrax attacks-- which were carried out by elements of the US government and which targeted Democratic senators

5) the assassination of Senator Paul Wellstone

6) the bombing and terrorizing of Afghani and Iraqi civilians during the respective invasions of these countries

7) the torture at Abu Ghraib, Guatanamo, and other US-run prisoner-of-war detention facilities

8) the razing of Fallujah and the murder of unknown numbers of civilians there

9) the suppression of black votes in Ohio and Florida during the 2004 election

10) the likely manipulation of votes via electronic machines that are not subject to recount and verification

11) the disregard for any sane environmental policy

12) war profiteering by Halliburton and KBR


These evils can ALL be laid at the doorstep of Bush and Cheney, and the GOP.

(that the media mostly completely ignores these horrors is another story. And no one can seriously say Clinton did anything close to as bad as anything this current crew has done.)

The point is-- how can Bush and Cheney and their GOP lackeys live with themselves? Don't their consciences bother them?

The answer is that I'm sure these men know that have done evil. But they rationalize it as a neccessity for their greater goals-- for what they perceive as the "greater good".

So what ARE their goals?

Clearly, a major one is securing access to oil supplies for continued large US consumption. This is nothing new-- what is new is the lengths to which they are willing to go to get this.

Another major goal is to enrich the oligoarchy and to return to an older, more archaic time, with less parity between the sexes and even less parity between workers and the ruling classes.

Possibly another goal is to set the seeds for a large reduction of the world population, which likely will have to occur in the next twenty years as oil supplies radically diminish.

So all the evil that has been done in the past four years is rationalized as for the greater good of the US-- no matter who gets killed in the process. The "greater good"-- as defined by them.

The question for us, then, is what can we do to combat this evil?

Perhaps the best thing anyone could ever do is to find a new, cheap, plentiful and safe alternative energy source that can be used by the entire world-- so we can avoid future wars and related trauma caused by diminishing resources. This may be fantasy to think such a thing could be found, but it also may be the only real answer.

Note: Jeff Wells has a must-read post relating to the evils done by our current leaders.