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Still looking for that, "still small voice."
I've not said it much, perhaps in fear that to mention it will make it real, but I am afraid.
The past three years I've seen greater threats to the way of life I treasure (enough to enlist in the Army, albeit with a touch of Lee's preference for his State) than at any time in my life (and that includes my memories of Nixon).
I've not gone off the deep end, with stockpiles of ammo, hideouts in the hills and lists of those who need to be put against the wall when the revolution succeeds, (for those who care to see my rant on the subject of such revolt look here (http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004965.html), but I am worried. It has disturbed my sleep and I await, in dread, that bell ringing in the night, which knells a new Dredd Scott.
But there is hope (that vicious little tyrant), and it comes in the form of the public managing, even still, to impose its will on those who see themselves as autonomous power, beyond the realm of censure, or oversight (when John Dean says Bush is worse than Nixon, I am willing to believe, even taking into account that Dean may have an interest in painting Tricky Dick in a better light than he might deserve).
Rice will have to testify, under oath; and in a public forum, about the Administration's handling of That Tuesday, and its aftermath.
Given the recent Clarke furor (and anyone who rails and cavils about the evil of a Civil Service should think about what our policies would look like without people of Clarke's calibre, working away, through the cycling of administrations; the shifts of patronage and the vagaries of support... pursuing the end, and ignoring; so much as he could, the trials of the way) it is likely (one can only hope) that some questions about 1: the focus of events from the assumption of power, and 2: the advise she gave (and the basis for it) on the invasion of Iraq.
If she fibs, those who screamed for the Head of Clinton, because he lied under oath in a civil suit, will have to suck it up, should someone call for her resignation/ouster.
We must take our comforts where we find them, and revel in the small victories, because we are not striving for catastrophic overthrow. I, at least, don't think the system broken, and believe the damage can be repaired.
The past three years I've seen greater threats to the way of life I treasure (enough to enlist in the Army, albeit with a touch of Lee's preference for his State) than at any time in my life (and that includes my memories of Nixon).
I've not gone off the deep end, with stockpiles of ammo, hideouts in the hills and lists of those who need to be put against the wall when the revolution succeeds, (for those who care to see my rant on the subject of such revolt look here (http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004965.html), but I am worried. It has disturbed my sleep and I await, in dread, that bell ringing in the night, which knells a new Dredd Scott.
But there is hope (that vicious little tyrant), and it comes in the form of the public managing, even still, to impose its will on those who see themselves as autonomous power, beyond the realm of censure, or oversight (when John Dean says Bush is worse than Nixon, I am willing to believe, even taking into account that Dean may have an interest in painting Tricky Dick in a better light than he might deserve).
Rice will have to testify, under oath; and in a public forum, about the Administration's handling of That Tuesday, and its aftermath.
Given the recent Clarke furor (and anyone who rails and cavils about the evil of a Civil Service should think about what our policies would look like without people of Clarke's calibre, working away, through the cycling of administrations; the shifts of patronage and the vagaries of support... pursuing the end, and ignoring; so much as he could, the trials of the way) it is likely (one can only hope) that some questions about 1: the focus of events from the assumption of power, and 2: the advise she gave (and the basis for it) on the invasion of Iraq.
If she fibs, those who screamed for the Head of Clinton, because he lied under oath in a civil suit, will have to suck it up, should someone call for her resignation/ouster.
We must take our comforts where we find them, and revel in the small victories, because we are not striving for catastrophic overthrow. I, at least, don't think the system broken, and believe the damage can be repaired.
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I took the view it's all a crock of shit. BLiar is trying to get his name in history, Iraq is to him what the Falklands whee to Thatcher, or so he wanted. The Falklands though was legally more clear cut, one nation invaded another sovreign colony and we threw the Argentines out. What mandate Iraq? Truth be known little except the ambition of Wolfowitz et al.
That being said I'm a professional soldier and mine is not to reason why, at least not in terms of picking and choosing the battles I'm sent to fight. I have no enthusiasm for this one (unlike Angola and Namibia last year and Indonesia this) and so have not been putting myself forward for the Telic 6, 7 or 8 deployment lists. There's little I can do out there except some crappy SO2 post in an HQ somehwere, you can't drop a major into a sqn and say "command that" without a lot of time adjusting to the unit you command and the style and manner of the CO above you. That's why I'm being used for small scale limited deployments where I get to use my strengths (combat estimates along with G3 and G4 planning, the reason I was put on the command and staff course and the reason I was promoted after last year's OJAR). I actuallyquite like that felxibility, though the downside is seeing mates shipped off knowing it's unlikely they'll be needing me unless he shit really does hit the spinning part of a cooling device. 'Guess fate has it against me for the MC I hoped to have by 35!