Moral clarity. It's rare in Bush's Global War on Terror, where people argue in favor of torture, where wars are fought against people who never attacked us, and where the ideas of justice and the rule of law are ridiculed by right wing pundits more concerned with their party than their nation. Moral clarity has become wishful thinking, with candidates competing to see which can portray themselves as the most Holy, which loses the most nights' sleep crying over the fate of the unborn, which prays the most often. These same candidates also compete over which is the most merciless, the most bloodthirsty, and the least concerned with civil liberties. On the question of constitutional rights, we're told, "The Constitution is not a suicide pact" -- as if a bunch of lunatic cultists can erase the United States from the map. Where there was once moral clarity, there's now cognitive dissonance. The US is both very, very strong and very, very weak. We're asked to believe that we can use our military to rebuild the world, but that a bunch of wild-eyed terrorists can kill us all at any minute.Our moments of moral clarity seem strange. Wise decisions become oddities. Bush's GWoT demands that we act, now, immediately and, for God's sake, never, ever take a moment to breath and think. Because when someone takes that moment, the logic of the whole thing falls apart. We see war for the sake of war and everything we were brought up to believe called unamerican and unpatriotic. The Constitution is, after all, just a goddamned piece of paper and the great men who now stride the Earth are allowed to ignore it.
For US citizens, our nation and our world have become very alien to us. We end this year where we ended the last, in a seemingly unending madness without purpose.
The Army Times tells us of one moment of moral clarity, one wise decision. In our present time, this is referred to as a "mutiny..."
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