New Jersy, U.S.A. – Decades from now, historians may be debating exactly when America’s age of freedom and prosperity came to a crashing end. There is a very good chance that the wiser among them will write that the end came, not on September 11, 2001 – the day the World Trade Center was destroyed, but on March 17, 2003 – the day George W. Bush set in motion the most unprovoked act of aggression by one sovereign state against another since Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor.
As I write this, the United States is poised to enter uncharted realms of infamy. It’s armies – once revered as saviors of the Free World – will join the list of history’s rampaging hordes. This is a dark day for the human species. How utterly disgusting for Bush and his “allies” to pick St. Patrick’s Day – when we remember the brave freedom struggle of the Irish people – to declare their high-technology pogrom against the Iraqi people. I have been combing my various historical texts in search of an appropriate parallel to the impending carnage in the Middle East, and I have found an exquisitely poignant one – an empire-building megalomaniac who massacred whole cities in his quest for riches and power. His name was Genghis Khan.
As I write this, the United States is poised to enter uncharted realms of infamy. It’s armies – once revered as saviors of the Free World – will join the list of history’s rampaging hordes. This is a dark day for the human species. How utterly disgusting for Bush and his “allies” to pick St. Patrick’s Day – when we remember the brave freedom struggle of the Irish people – to declare their high-technology pogrom against the Iraqi people. I have been combing my various historical texts in search of an appropriate parallel to the impending carnage in the Middle East, and I have found an exquisitely poignant one – an empire-building megalomaniac who massacred whole cities in his quest for riches and power. His name was Genghis Khan.