First, the neo-con Project for the New American Century, in 2000, said we need a “catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor” in order to be driven quickly enough to the empire-building excesses they champion. They got that reprehensible wish, and the cavalcade of executive power-grabbing, despicable manipulation and outright lying has crippled our country for years.
But today, Stu Bykofsky, writing in the Philadelphia Daily News, has surpassed all who would aspire to the throne of shameful prose, not to mention evidencing a callous disregard for human lives in open service of, of all things, politics. He says it’s awful how we disagree politically. Bykofsky misses the good old days of terror and blind support for any old thing Bush wanted, like war powers and that unconstitutional travesty the “Patriot” Act. But I’ll just let Mr. Bykofsky speak for himself, because he can do it better:
America’s fabric is pulling apart like a cheap sweater.
What would sew us back together?
Another 9/11 attack.
The Golden Gate Bridge. Mount Rushmore. Chicago’s Wrigley Field. The Philadelphia subway system. The U.S. is a target-rich environment for al Qaeda.
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If it is to be, then let it be. It will take another attack on the homeland to quell the chattering of chipmunks and to restore America’s righteous rage and singular purpose to prevail.
The unity brought by such an attack sadly won’t last forever.
So another 9/11, followed by more terrorism to recharge the batteries is the answer. Because then we can stop all this disagreeing and just give George W. Bush whatever he “needs.” Some “righteous rage” would be good. (So many good things have come from it in human history.) I hope I never live in the country Mr. Bykofsky dreams of. Perhaps Bykofsky should consider whether he’d be willing to sacrifice himself, or maybe his mother, his child if he has one, to salve our unseemly political bickering (some dare call that bickering “the democratic process”). I wouldn’t wish death on him–why does he wish it on others? What has so disconnected this man from his fellow humans?
I can’t believe I even have to write this. If you can stand it, read the whole stomach-turning thing here.
