Bush Cheney and the Balance of Civilization
Will an attack on Iran return us to the Middle Ages?
{This commentary will also be available, later this week, as a podcast under Commentaries From Craig Barnes @ ANationDeceived.org.}
This is the text of the talk given by Craig Barnes at the Jefferson County Unitarian Church in Denver, CO on December 16, 2007.
Some of you may know that I have been writing and speaking about the agency of truth and harmlessness to bring about the gradual emergence of the “civil” in civilization. Last Sunday at a church in Santa Fe, I spoke about harmlessness. Today, I want to speak about the sword of truth.
For most Americans who follow history and who treasure truth telling and compassion as hallmarks of our republic, these are not good times. The president of the United States seems continually committed to fabricate a case, with or without evidence of an imminent danger, to attack Iran. He was committed to attacking Iraq in the fall of 2002, and in the fall of 2007 he appears committed to attack Iran. He did not resist the temptation to filter and overstate the evidence against Iraq and he does not now resist the temptation to filter and overstate the danger from Iran. It is as if, following one mistake, he could divert our attention from the quagmire that resulted from that mistake, by pursuing a new mistake. He would be like King Edward III, in the Fourteenth Century, if he could, or the Black Prince, Edward’s son, who fought and captured the king of France, and Mr. Bush does not see the reality that he is more like Kaiser Wilhelm than the Black Prince. He is bluster and blindness and unwise and out of touch with the people he was selected to serve.
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