The (Ill)Ogic of Mr. Bush

So I was thinking of an analogy this morning to describe Bush's Iraq policy.

Now that Al-Quaeda is involved because they were sucked into the fray like shit down a toilet with the great Bush plunger of policy he is basically arguing the current situation justifies the pre-emptive action. Kind of a caricature of "the ends justifies the means" no matter if the end was never in the plans or in the reasons for going into the war. With this ethic I can do whatever I want today and make up a good reason for the action at any time in the future to justify it. So there must be a lot of innocent murderers in jail today because they can use that same reasoning to justify anything. "Now I realize that I was meant to kill that person in order to learn what I have learned about life in prison and never to do that again. I am now going to be a better person and love rather than kill . Therefore, I am innocent of the crime I committed a few years ago." So here's the analogy:

I have a sneaking suspicion that my neighbor is plotting to harm me. They have had a massive beehive growing in their backyard for sometime and I suspect that it is the method they will use to inflict damage on my house and my kids. It is 150 yards from my house. I should walk over to that hive in a bee-keeper suit and start hitting the massive nest with a bat and then walk away. When my neighbor starts yelling at me for what I did, I should then go over and start beating my neighbor over the head with the same bat saying, "See, I told you those bees were going to harm me."

So next time you have a sneaking suspicion about something, give 'em hell before they give you hell first!

Then Jesus (would have) told them the meaning of the parable saying, "When a two year old child realizes that they cannot control the world and all that is in it, they will reject the thing that they desire in order to maintain control. If a parent withholds a lollipop from that toddler until a certain action (such as picking up the cereal he or she just tossed on the floor) is completed, that request for cleanliness is met with an often violent NO from the child. Often, that toddler, if he or she is still upset, will reject the lollipop rather than gladly accept it. This will then translate into something of a preemptive strike as time goes on where the toddler will reject the very object of desire before it is even offered. This is a way to control things that are out of one's control. It is called a "reaction formation". Teenagers do the same thing often with apathy. The reaction formation is not based on evidence or an accurate prediction of harm on the self, but is an overzealous protective strategy that is inherently irrational. So it is better to love your neighbor than suspect the worst of them and therefore bring the worst out of them with attack or ignorance in order to control them and the world around you."

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