What the hell are we going to do with Iraq?

And, in the same consideration, why are the Repbub-Conserves so enamored with "winning" when the definition of winning keeps ... well, evolving. I think that is a nice term...not too derogational.

I am getting more and more clueless as to GWB's agenda. Are we going to stay in Iraq until the I's decide on the oil distribution? As best I can tell, those Iraqis who work in the oil fields are pretty much like any other human being--just doing their job. But, they are getting a little pissed at their country's ability to agree on whether or not they will have a job for the foreseeable near future. Sounds pretty demo-liberal to me: can't we just do our jobs and make a living?

But, I am clueless as to how many of these people have a say in anything that is going on in the land of chaos.

Do you?

Didn't think so. You are just as cluess as I am as to what the hell is going on "over there". (If you are old enough, you will know that "over there" was a WW-II song).

Are you as disappointed in the collective consciousness of our society as I am that we indulged ourselves in "hysteria" to the point that we were easily "led" into this cluster-fuck? What gets me is that the notion of "hysteria" is no longer an acceptable term is the clinical psychology realm. Only those who are enamored with the philosophical issues of hysteria even bother to write about the topic.

But, for argumentative purpose, let's just put the idea out there--the invasion of Iraq was a symptom of a hysterical culture--even when the term "hysteria" has lost all practical meaning.

How is it that those who engage the most hysterical vision of this world have managed to create their own self-fulfilling prophecy? Is this war about oil or salvation? Of course--the immortality symbolism is certainly going to answer: both. The world of either-or has dissipated, dissolved, deconstructted.

A short story from the first "Gulf War". One of my students said it honestly: "I don't want to pay $2.00 a gallon for gas." The impliction--kill 'em if they want to fuck with my gas budget."

Really. That is what the kid said. That is our society.

No wonder "they" want t0 fuck us over.