Cheney Revolution

This war may be won from a military standpoint and lost from a revolutionary standpoint. Revolution is what is being exported. It is what this Administration wants us to stand behind and forcefully press upon the Iraqi people, the Afghans, the Columbians, the Cubans, the Chinese, the Russians – anyone who stands in our way.
Dick Cheney himself incorrectly compared the Iraqi war to the American Revolution. There is a sickness there that refuses to see beyond a narrow set of personal preferences to the actual situation at hand.
For over 1000 years Europe fought meaningless petty wars in an attempt to spreas some particular vague notion about religion or politics to their neighbors. Now the United States under the leader of George Bush has undertaken a worldwide crusade to bring democracy to every living person on the planet whether they like it or not. Mr. Bush and his evangelical followers and his industrial backers has clearly stated that they will not be turned away from their goal. We are to believe that they would fight for 1000 years in order to get their way.
If we die while they’re trying that’s okay with them. They are more than willing to sacrifice us, our children and our way of life in order to bring about a new world order through violence, intimidation and murder.
Is it then impossible to turn the hearts and minds of these people that have been so inflamed by George W. Bush and his political machine towards the better good of mankind or are we to watch as they burn the bridges behind us and light the horizon ahead us with flame?
Is there no way to speak through the blind faith that they have taken into themselves and become a part of? Is there – simply – no way to speak sense to these people?
It is our duty and our goal to communicate to these people that have been so deluded by the evangelical image of the world at large to help them to understand that we do not as a nation need to bring force to bear in order to convince other nations that it is better to trade than to steal, that peace is better than war and that democracy is not mob rule. Even so, that task will be easier than convincing these fevered people that profit does not come before an individual human life as their master demonstrates to them he believes each and every day the war drags on in Iraq and as Zalmay Khalilzad from the RAND Corporation interferes with free elections in Afghanistan.
‘It was the threat material in the great game of bluff he was playing, and it had taken even me by surprise. He was one of those incredibly stupid energetic people who seem sent by heaven to create disasters. His energy to the first glance seemed so wonderfully like capacity! But he had no imagination, no invention, only a stupid, vast, driving force of will, and a mad faith in his stupid idiot ‘luck’ to pull him through.’
-H.G. Wells, ‘A Dream of Armageddon’