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The first is outrage at my television set. For six years, when I watch the news, my blood boils.
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The second reason is personal. I started to try to write a book and found that it had been so long since I’d written anything, I didn’t know how to do it anymore. So I started writing daily as an exercise in writing. This stuff is what I found myself writing.
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The third reason came on the morning after the election in 2004. While I wasn’t in love with John Kerry, and I’m only statistically a Democratic voter, not a Party Member, on that November morning in 2004, I woke up depressed. I’m not a depressive person. I couldn’t accept that this country had made a decison that was that bad, again. So I started researching and writing to help me get over the painful dysphoria I felt about the re-election of Mr. Bush, Mr. Cheney, and their cohorts.
So what about the question on the table, Are the Neoconservatives Idealogogues or simply Con-Men, driven by greed? I started by discussing my motives for writing this blog in so far as I know them. Some of my reasons are altruistic, and some are personal, and some are probably unknown. For example, I’m a retired "expert." Maybe I’m writing it to try to be an "expert" again. The most depressing thing about the elections in 2000 and 2004 to me was the overwhelming support that came from the Christians in America. Maybe, I’m an "unconscious" Christian, still longing for the simple, clear view of the world that religion supplies, and I’m writing this to "reform" Christianity. I don’t know the answers to those questions because I don’t want those things to be true, so I cannot trust my judgement on those points. In my professional life, I learned on a daily basis that most human opinions are like this – multiple motives, some lofty, many personal, many unknown, often, unknowable. And when it’s groups, the sky is the limit.
| Halliburton wins as long as we keep fighting in Iraq, even if we’re losing the war. If we pull out, Halliburton loses. How hard is that to figure out? |
He should never have been elevated to a place of power in our government with such a huge conflict of interest. He should never have accepted the position offered with such a huge conflict of interest. We certainly should never have accepted any decison he was involved in, with him having such a huge conflict of interest. So he needs to be removed, or marginalized, and, perhaps, punished.
And my personal answer to the general question: Neoconservatives or Neo Con-Men? is "Yes – Neoconservative Neo Con-Men?"
Wow, that post has me almost motivated to create my own blog. I had been toying with the idea, but wondering if I had anything to contribute. I usually find that what I have to say is already being said by a number of others . As a greying hippie, soon to be boring old man, I salute this post.