Today, as I write, the Trojans have constructed the horse and sailed away, as Cassandra of that fable advised the Greeks to set fire to the horse, I am advising you of the clear and present danger inherent in this situation.
I record my fear that a completely desperate and out of options Bush Administration in August of this year, will contrive the means to launch an attack of Iran, a sortie that will result in World War Three.
Prophecy is not a certain thing, my predictions are not certain things, based on they are not on clairvoyance or the application of anything supernatural; but based on the logical interpretation of circumstances and events, so suppose we avoid the bullet this time, the fact of a different balance of power, the obdurate and irreducible fact of a different balance of power will remain.
There are those who say that simple justice has no place in international relations, I would suggest that there can be no international relations without simple justice given the new balance of power, with large numbers of individuals and groups having access to the means to construct weapons of mass destruction.
It is time for American people to take responsibility for the future of this nation and impeach this rogue President; who, it is abundantly clear, does not have the flexibility to change a course, a course that has produced a failed and lost cause.
The time when leaders were infallible, when the truth could not be spoken was that time when might was right, that period of history when Absolutism ruled, that time is past and we must reject it, or repeat its tragedies over, and over, and over, again.
President Bush has made mistakes, which he refuses to address, and which cannot wait two years to be addressed; nor, should we wait until after that time has elapsed so it can be claimed the acceptance of defeat did not occur during his Administration.
When the votes to impeach are in place we need to use this handle to force the President to fire his Vice President and replace his with Senator John McCain; then address the United Nations to disclose truthfully and accurately the reasons for the attack on Iraq and beg the pardon of the people of Iraq for the suffering it has caused; or face hard time in prison.
He would also, during his mea culpa speech, petition for a United Nations force to oversee the orderly and complete withdrawal of the Allied Forces from Iraq; he would also outline reparations that the USA will make for the damage this unjustified attack has caused in Iraq.
After his resignation closely following on this speech, the new President should appoint Senator John Kerry to be Vice President and together they should create an administration of national unity to govern until the next presidential election is held.
The first order of business of the new government would be to call for talks to create peace in the Middle East and end the forty year conflict in this region; the talks would be called to resolve the historical problems created by Europeans, by the Romans who decided to destroy the nation of Israel when it could not pacify it; by Europeans down the years who persecuted the hapless Jews, culminating in the Shoah when six million innocent Jews, and other populations Hitler thought undesirable perished in the Nazi Concentration Camps.
The war on terror would come to an end if the world recognized that the actions of the Palestinians and their supporters though extreme were justified, since they were in defense against the invasion of refugees from the Nazi war machine and the German Concentration Camps backed by the vast near unlimited resources of International Jewry; if the Arab States, as they have proposed, recognize the State of Israel; if the State of Israel in turn withdraws to borders acceptable to the Arab States, recognizes a Palestinian State and agrees to refrain from interfering in the internal affairs of that state; that forty year conflict would be at an end.
I suggest that the extremism of the Arab peoples is produced by feelings of the terrible injustice that was done to them; the Bedouins were a nomadic people who survived a series of conquerors notably the Romans, the Turks, and the British, by not resisting them, by continuing to wander through the deserts of Palestine with their flocks of sheep and goats.
After the end of the First World War an Israeli State came to be the objective of powerful Jewish families who controlled rich banking houses throughout Europe; and, the promise of an Israeli state was a means of manipulating these powerful financial entities; but this was never intended to be more than a promise until the news began to pour out of Germany of the atrocities committed in Dachau, Auschwitz, and other scenes of indescribable and unspeakable horrors as these camps were liberated.
The Arab nations could not overcome the Jews who were refugees from these Camps; and, those from Europe who had escaped this experience, and, those Jews who lived in Israel but were motivated by the treatment of members of their race in these Camps, these Jews were fighting for their survival; and the Arab armies were defeated on at least four separate occasions in conventional battles, defeats which were demoralizing and which created deep wounds in national pride given their numerical superiority and the relative ease with which these victories were achieved, and were eventually forced to curb the expansionist policies of the Jewish State by ever more extreme acts of violence and terrorism.
But because the peoples of the world were so amazed and horrified at Nazi atrocities they felt a deep and enduring sympathy for the survivors of these death camps the Arab nations were seen as the aggressors; and, I was one of those individuals saw them as monsters, and were increasingly antagonized by the depredations attributed to terrorist groups.
As I practiced the discipline of truth I became more and more rational and began to interpret the facts differently, as my perspective changed and more and more I saw the reality behind conditioning I had been subjected to in Israel.
I overcame experiences like the visit to the memorial to the six million Jews that died in the Shoah, and, began to give weight to the fact that groups of Jewish emigrants to Palestine had purchased land from Sheiks who had held this land from time immemorial.
I ask the reader to question as he or she attempts to develop the capacity to dispense justice to the people of Iraq: why is it that no Democrat ever reveals anything really negative about his or her Party? Why does this code of silence apply to Republicans as well? And lastly, why have they alternated in governing of this nation for the last five decades and both have had so little success in getting anything done?
The settlement of the forty year conflict between Israel and the Palestinians could create a momentum that could create a stable government in Iraq; and that would be the next order of business.
The final issue I will raise has to do with the recent massacre on the campus of Virginia Tech by the mass murderer Cho of the thirty two innocent individuals.
The question I want to ask is, if this social, political and philosophical milieu can produce such monsters, why is not possible that it can produce someone who is good, someone who is dedicated to the common good?
For more than twenty five years I have tried to communicate a positive development that I have stumbled upon, that telling the truth would have a very positive effect on human existence; and I wonder why it is so difficult to engage the interest of individuals so that they would try this?
I am a scrupulously honest man, I have become a gentle man, where before I was like the common run of human beings as impulsive, as deluded, as prone to error as anyone else.
Why is it that this society is so preoccupied with Original Sin, with the faux pas of Don Imus which was the item in the news two weeks ago to the exclusion of everything else; as this week it is the brutal, cold, dispassionate and unfeeling murders that are the focus of attention?
Is Original Innocence as remarkable, would the fact that someone is attempting to achieve this not only in concept but also in precept be as newsworthy and produce as high ratings in this world of anything goes? Or does the powers that be wish to perpetually create and sustain the delusion that achieving moral consistency is impossible or meaningless because it would affect their power, or that this is superfluous or unnecessary because we have already done it?
I say again that continuing the climb up the steep incline towards civilization depends on a bare majority in every social system attaining moral consistency and that this is an achievable goal; and, that telling the truth is the necessary prerequisite to that end; that unless this is accomplished and we become adept in the use of positive reinforcements it is very likely, if not certain, that humanity will regress into savagery because of the detonation, soon or late, of the weapons of mass destruction we have developed.
Moreover, moral development will cause us to be acting in harmony and in concert with the natural convergence of forces that together create and sustain the ecology that supports all life on this planet; that continuing to diverge from and destroy that natural balance ensures that we will unleash forces that are completely beyond our control, that must destroy us.
One course, the high road of morality, will result in longevity for the human race; the other course, the low road of immorality will certainly have the consequence of our speedy demise.
The miracle of technology has allowed every one of us, everywhere to witness via television the awesome power of hurricanes, of tidal waves, of tornadoes; can we remain unconvinced of the possibility that we can become extinct and leave as little evidence of our passing as the dinosaurs that preceded us as the dominant species on this planet?
I seek neither riches, celebrity status, nor notoriety; nor do I have any political ambitions, my commitment is to the common good, why is that so incredible and impossible for anyone to believe?
Especially since I offer only factual and empirical evidence combined with logical arguments that promote and support the substantially improved efficacy and functionality that would be the consequence of adopting and practicing the discipline of truth in such a way that you have the unfettered, unmitigated and unhindered right to chose, to decline or accept this prescription.
When reading this essay on the human condition the reader needs to take into consideration that the writer has accomplished, to a significant degree, the cultural change envisioned herein, in contrast to those who are seeking a patron; who use their intelligence and writing skills to improve their social and economic status; the writer is motivated by altruism, the objective here is as stated, to create functioning democracies for the common good.
I feel constrained to make explicit what this is about, that I am asking the American people to give justice to the people of Iraq.
They must demonstrate to the world, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that they, and this nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to proposition that all men are created equal, accepts the rule of law, a rule of law based on the principle of natural justice that universally and eternally is applicable to the relationships between individuals, and the relationships between nations.
It is clear that the Bush Administration is not capable of dispensing justice to the people of Iraq, tonight, April 24th, I heard, with my own ears despite the tragic unfolding of events, Vice President Cheney describe Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as defeatist.
I say to Vice President Cheney that this war was lost long ago when the Allied Forces engaged in a naked act of aggression against the people of Iraq, when the USA and its Allies attacked another sovereign nation and overthrew its duly constituted government without justification.
If a citizen of the USA takes the life of another citizen, he, or she, must have a reason, a justification for that action, or that individual is guilty of murder and is subject to the death penalty.
This standard, the bar of justice must be set higher for any nation when it contemplates going to war; and, higher still for the most powerful nation on Planet Earth, given the dire consequences measured in the massive loss of life and the widespread destruction of property that might result, when hostilities begin.
There needs to be iron clad justifications, and victory cannot and must not change, in the slightest, that requirement; or, it will be impatient of debate that we have regressed once again into the ' state of nature ' and have again begun to live by the law of the jungle, the rule of fang and claw, a matrix in which might is right and only the strong survive.
I am saying to the American people that every nation on Planet Earth needs to be able to trust that the United States of America will not unleash its numerically powerful and superior armed forces and sophisticated weaponry, without real justification, without ironclad justifications - otherwise the international arena becomes fraught with danger, pregnant with distrust and fear; and, the government of United States of America becomes an outlaw government, a scoff-law organization operating above and outside the law.
It was clear to me from the outset that these ironclad justifications did not exist, that the rush to initiate hostilities was a consequence of the inexperience, opportunism and irrationality of the Bush Administration which had several alternatives; for example, it could have pushed for its own Inspectors, to replace those of the United Nations, to determine once and for all whether the Saddam Hussein regime possessed weapons of mass destruction.
The Bush Administration, as an incompetent and criminal substitute to prudently and responsibly acting as they were mandated and sworn to do; to ensure that the evidence - that prompted it to so hastily and precipitately loose the savage primordial bloodthirsty dogs of war - proved beyond reasonable doubt that a clear and imminent danger existed to this nation; instead, they contrived and manufactured the tainted and since discredited means and issues that justified the attack on Iraq.
I say again, as I said several years ago, that I hold President Bush personally responsible for every war related death in Iraq; and, promise him that he will face, one day, an all knowing and omnipotent justice that will not be deflected, swayed or deceived by spin, and made to answer for his part in this debacle.
I call upon the American people to be the highest court of appeal and dispense that sweet, healing balm of simple justice to the Iraqi people, that equity and sound judgment that has been so palpably and sadly lacking hitherto from this tragic and ill conceived adventure; so that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish but belatedly create for humanity a viable and enduring future of peace and prosperity, and, provide for all the wretched of this earth, the possibility of happiness.