The Spirit of the Internet Weekly

THE TWO GEORGES ON SUNDAY

"universal support" - George W. Bush

"coalition of one" - George Will

MID-EAST REALITIES © - MER - - Washington - 10/24: Both of the Georges are oh so full of themselves cocky -- just the personality type so many American's truly love. One is (to the amazement of many who wonder how in the world the U.S. chooses such persons to lead it) the President of the United States. Speaking Sunday of America's "new war" as he was about to leave the international meetings in Shanghai, son of former CIA/Pres Bush told the world: "We're not conducting these operations alone, we have universal support around the world!" Yes sir, that's the same Dubya who really does seem to think the world is nothing more than an extension of the old wild west of American history -- put up a reward poster "wanted dead or alive" and go "smoke 'em out" because "good will triump over evil." No wonder this still recovering frat-boy President with grade-school-teacher wife feels most confortable talking to children, of late encouraging them to send their dollars to help the poor children of Afghanistan -- doing so from the Headquarters of the American Red Cross on the very same day the Red Cross in Kabul was bombed!

Then there is pundit George, a right-wing ideological cousin of Dubya who takes a certain pride in telling the truth about his convictions while at the same time cheerleading for the Pentagon Generals urging them on in their "crusade" to assert the new "new world order". About the same time on Sunday that Dubya George was trumpeting his "universal support" inanities in Shanghai, George Will was much more candidly telling the country (as he does weekly for ABC News) that "So far it's really a coalition of one, maybe one and a half (referring to the Brits of course). The coalition so far is nothing but window dressing."

So much for the two Georges who constantly have America's ears; as well as the American media and the blabbering Sunday Talk Shows that so dominate the American nationalist agenda.

A few days later however, on Tuesday, someone not allowed on American TV -- not weekly on Sundays and hardly even ever actually -- had something very important to say: author Arundhati Roy who said it in The Guardian. Same establishment TV blacklisting takes place of course when it comes to the very best experts and the giant intellects of our time -- Chomsky and Fisk leap immediately to mind.

Constantly spoon fed on and by Georges -- the equivalent of McDonalds cheeseburgers for the brain -- no wonder so many Americans are so obese and bumbling of mind as well as body. No wonder nearly all Americans were caught so unawares on 11 September. No wonder nearly all Americans cheer and fly flags and simplistically talk incessantly about "we good" and "they evil"; themselves collectively killing millions while backing the worst thugs and dictators...all without even knowing what they have done in the recent past and that what is happening now is, to a very large extent, a direct result of what has come before.

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