It is a time of freedom and fear, of Gaia and of borders, of many paths and the widening of a universal toll road, emptying country and swelling cities, of the public bought into privacy and the privacy of the public sold into invisible data banks and knowing algorithms. It is the time of the warrior's peace and the miser's charity, when the planting of a seed is an act of conscientious objection.

These are the times when maps fade and direction is lost. Forwards is backwards now, so we glance sideways at the strange lands through which we are all passing, knowing for certain only that our destination has disappeared. We are unready to meet these times, but we proceed nonetheless, adapting as we wander, reshaping the Earth with every tread.

Behind us we have left the old times, the standard times, the high times. Welcome to the irregular times.


 
Will George W. Bush Run Away Scared from the United Nations Again?

Before he invaded Iraq, George W. Bush promised to the American people in a nationally-televised speech that he would insist that the members of the United Nations Security Council "put their cards on the table" and force them to vote on a resolution explicitly authorizing an invasion of Iraq. Then, within a week, George W. Bush broke his promise to the American people and withdrew that resolution from the United Nations Security Council so that none of the member nations ever had the chance to "put their cards on the table".

Now, after the invasion and occupation of Iraq have failed to achieve the basic objectives that George W. Bush identified before he began his war, Bush is begging the United Nations to bail him out. He promises that he's going to present a resolution to the United Nations Security Council that will bring in United Nations soldiers to help out the American soldiers who are being shot at every day. Well, we've heard that promise before. We'll be watching closely to see if George Bush runs away from the United Nations again when he doesn't get what he wants.

America doesn't need a Commander-In-Chief who's infamous across the world for talking tough, but then turning tail and running away when he can't back up his tough words with the tough-minded diplomacy it takes to really get things done.

Posted by J. Clifford Cook at 12:32 AM. # (permalink)  




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