SHADES OF LBJ

SHADES OF LBJ

I wouldn't have thought it, five years ago.  A year ago, with all my reservations and oppositions and distrust and disgust, I woyldn't have thought it possible.  Barack Hussein Obama as Lyndon Baines Johnson?  BHO wearing LBJ's shoes?

Things are more "sophisticated" now--and we mostly ignore that the US has been at war and at war--at multiple wars--for the last twenty-five years..  But now, the US no longer burns people alive with good ole Dow napalm--and we don't get obscene pictures of such heroics.  Now we murder people by drone, with remote control--and I don't know which great American philanthropic company makes the drones.

Of course, LBJ also got the great 1964 US Civil Rights act made into law.  And he gave us--momentarily--the Great Society.  Obama came nowhere close to doing anything good in his first term; he could have been a Bush III.  But he started out ther second term sounding like a decent man.  The recent disclosures about our drone-murders undoes all that.

Like the Bushes before him, or like Henry Kissinger and Robert McNamara, Barak Obama is--by any honest and honorable person's standards--another war criminal.

For the past however many years, I don't like to go back to the US:  to go home.  Until recently, I was simply afraid of domestic violence.  While I was there I didn't go out at night.  My flat was on the second floor--but I still stayed away from the windows after dark.  Now I don't want to go home because I am so disgusted with and ashamed of the U. S. government. 

The U.S. is a rogue state.  Because it has 11,000 nuclear bombs--and a record of having used them--no nation will challenge it.  Because it attacks anybody it  suspects of disagreeing with it, nobody wants to accuse it of any wrong-doing, of evil uses of force.

One might argue that we just need to give the US time:  that it is far beyond bankruptcy, financially as well as morally, and soon it will simply collapse.  But common sense tells us that before it goes under, the US may just use those 11,000 nuclear weapons to destroy the world.  Any nation as stupid, vicious, violent, and utterly immoral as the US can't be trusted.

Someone said, in the early 1950s, that the nuclear age would be the age of horrible mass murder.  With the US as the nuclear power, it might be just that:  and more.  It might be the end of the world.

Ron Paul recently quoted a biblical verse:  "He who lives by the sword dies by the sword."  There isn't anybody else in Washington who would say that.  In God-bless-America, that verse is heresy.

I wish I had voted last November.  I would have voted for Ron Paul.