Parsing War in a Time of Indolence

Bill Clinton's "Depends on what the meaning of 'is' is" keeps coming back on us, as we divide language from reality, especially when it comes to the war in Iraq. Clinton's legion of defenders believe that language is shapes reality. This is why Oprah tells her followers that she strives to to achieve the highest level of "consciousness." In our time it is no longer how we live or live in relation to others, but within our own minds. Our legions of fighting men, however, can't seem to parse their way through IED's or bullets of Iranian supplied Swiss sniper rifles. This language thing divides us. There are those who live the eyries of great cities and in the ivory towers of Academe, who wouldn't survive a day of the working man, but they think that terrorists are rational while George Bush is an evil fool. Yet the fool Democrats devoid of solutions now want complete withdrawl, for the sake of domestic politcs. When questioned about the bloodbath to follow, they fume that anyone question their patriotism. The public unaccustommed to rhetorical and logical fallacies, miss the schools of redherrings that spew forth from Democratic leaders and their sychophants in the establishment media. If there is any blame to be levied on the President, it is that he believed that we could have both guns and butter. Now that we are 5 years into the war and 4 years into a tremendous economic boom, the guns are rusting and the butter supply will inevitably go through its business cycle.