March 18, 2003
Onion: Our Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity is Finally Over

[In from Bob Perelman -- pretty wild.]

Perhaps everyone has seen this Onion piece: "Our Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity is Finally Over." January 18, 2001? The 'satire' is so factually accurate that it's hard to believe the date isn't a hoax.

http://www.theonion.com/onion3701/bush_nightmare.html

Posted by Brian Stefans at March 18, 2003 09:06 PM
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The logic of the aforementioned article is both a summation of an intuitive understanding of the place Republicans found themselves both before and after Clinton, and where we find ourselves when Reason is stretched to the point it snaps, or bounces back. The Bush doctrine is not dissimilar from the Reaganite fetish of the moral imperative, fulminated in the multinational scientific effort within the United States of America to not only envision, create and expend weapons of both surgical and mass destruction, but perhaps more insidious, to use all available technology to disrupt the normally operative deductive logic of the gut reaction.
The embarkation to the 21st century is a decision we must make at the forked berth of our future. The capitalist revolution is, in the political procedure of truth, apparent and so to speak, at hand. If we can imagine the failed effort of the pre-capitalist states to be the anvil to the hammer of the Proletariat, we may venture to ponder the significance of a revolution driven by capital.
If we are disgusted by the commodification of individual worth, the valuation of the strength of the market over the threshold of the human endurance for fortitude in the face of ignorance and disinformation, then we must act. It will take a force larger than the Tiananman square movement to stop the initiation of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Are you resolved to be detained for indefinite hours/days, against your freedom and individual right, to be civilly disobedient? Do you wish a temporary or permanent suspension of your civil rights? Is peace a Truth, or is it a repression and inevitable reaction to the way your father beat your mother, how your teacher touched you, or your football coach asked you to lick his balls. The Mother of all Bombs is noise.
If you cannot withstand the inevitable future, if you cannot envision yourself as an American Republican, take it upon yourself to be a quasi suicide bomber, to give your life but not your flesh for the idea of democracy. The attempt to subvert the war after it has begun is as intolerable as sending young men and women to face a force they not only do not understand, but globally, in a place they are unable to position themselves geographically.
If you cannot fast or simply occupy a space such as Time’s Square with your willing flesh, the process of peace has failed and there are no more earplugs to be found.

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