One time playing Scattergories with some friends, everyone was asked to think of a bad habit beginning with the letter J. Most of the group picked the obivous (and not actually bad) habit. The winner said “jingoism.”
So when you start to say you support that war because it’s in America’s interest, stop and think. First off, America includes more than just the United States. Second, go-it-alone is not in anyone’s interest. And third, consider yourself and your nation in context.
I don’t always think religions have the moral high ground, but most of them are opposed to this war. The WTO, a natural US policy ally if there ever was one, thinks we’re charging off a cliff, economically. Meanwhile, we’re changing the names of food in the congressional cafeterias. Administration experts are joining the chorus of journalists who decry the monomanaical focus on killing Saddam.
This isn’t some fifth column, outside-agitated, dirty longhair hippie crowd. The diminishing, increasingly strident group known as “middle America” needs to wake up and notice that manifest destiny went out with the free-ranging buffalo and the smallpox-laden blanket. They’ll figure it out, eventually. The question is, are you going to think about it, and learn it on your own, or are we all going to be suffer for your self-abuse?
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You are so right! You should start reading José Martí’s works.
“Oh, México querido; Oh, México adorado, de los peligros que te cercan, oye el clamor de un hijo tuyo que no nació de ti. Por el norte un vecino ambicioso se cuaja (…) Tu te ondenaras, tu entenderás; tu te guiarás; yo habré muerto; Oh, México, por defenderte y amarte, pero si tus manos flaqueasen y no fueras digno de tu deber continental yo lloraría debajo de la tierra, con lágrimas que serían largas vetas de hierro para lanzar como un hijo clavado a su ataúd que ve que un gusano le come a la madre las entrañas.”
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Well, you know the old saying: “the problem with Mexico is that it’s so far from God, and so close to the US…”
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