step forward, don't worry

i was starting to think that our government was too weak, made up of a bunch of tree-hugging pussies. but rest assured, the fates are always there for me.

i guess it isn't a big suprise that colin powell left the bush administration. he must have felt like a black man at a clan rally (funny how that works huh?) since the start of the war. if there is one thing that has been fairly consistent about this war is that there just isn't room for diplomacy and reason.

from what little i know, he has been an outsider in the white house since soon after the start of the "war on terror" and has been marginalized ever since then. he was the lone dove in a nest of hawks.

i noticed at the start of bush's first administration that he was doing what he could to appoint people who looked diverse, but who really shared his idealogy. and i guess powell wasn't a whole lot different.

the way i see it, there are two significant forces of evil in power, both embodied by bush. first, there is the god fearing bush. this is the man that does what he believes is right. he is guided by god, and logic cannot prevail. but there is also the militaristic conservative power as well. this is represented in bush as a notion that his notion of democracy is the only acceptable form of government, and all other governments must perish before it.

obviously, it's not very hard to hold both of these beliefs. of course, it seems a little weird nowadays, because we have gone from fighting communisim/socialism to fighting theocracy/islamism. but you have to accept that these theocracies that we are fighting and the islamism are both non-christian, and therefore cannot be right at all. but god is an angry and jealous god (as was written in the bible).

and ultimately, bush is about as close to god as i am to lesbianism. sure, i am a little obsessed with it, but i just ain't even in the same ball park, and i am not getting close.

but i do fear about what an america would be like with rice as our sec. of state. it is the face of a diplomatic nation. and she is the hawk of all hawks. her entire career has been dedicated to the proliferation of "democracy" -- which i am sure is how she got where she was.

but unlike powell, rice is a "win at all costs" type of woman. and though thats fine with football, where bombs do little more than put six or seven points on the board, in real life (where the bombs are slightly more nuclear), it's a pretty deadly situation.

this is really the first time where i think i would support the blocking of an appointment to the cabinet, but i think that's probably a good thing for this nation. of course, there is no chance of that. getting ahead in washington is a strange proposition from the whores that seek it. they have to wade their way through the bullshit and resistance of a classist society, then put in hours in some meritocracy, only to gain foothold in an oligarchy. and i think i still can't spell. but i think that this is all a little queer when you are talking about the proliferation of a democracy that isn't even realized in the united states.

but the point is that rice has served her time, and the people whose opinions matter respect her for that. after all, few people even seem to see the fault in the war on terror -- a far more deadly and toxic notion than the war in iraq ever could be.

i don't really know what to think about this. but i do have faith in something ... though i can't really say what. well ... i have faith that the war effort will become more pointed and decided. and though that still poses a lot of threats, it seems to be a step in the right direction.

it's funny, if you would have asked me years ago if i would like a war effort to be pointed and decided, i would give back a resounding no. but now that i have had a chance to observe a bush led nation and war effort, i am stuck thinking, "well, at least they could do it right." i wonder if that is the same feeling that kerry felt. no, who am i kidding, he was just a bitch that couldn't really follow his own logic.