Says Ralph, "It’s a tendency to chalk that up to the media being ‘owned’ [in more ways than one] by corporate American — and maybe they think it’s not good for business to remind the American people of this tawdry piece of our recent history." And Joy, "I wonder what will happen if real heads roll after this inquiry is completed. What does it take to have our own inquiry? Lying us into war sounds good enough to me, but what do I know. My Dad use to say on a regular basis ‘don’t saw sawdust." I’ll have to admit that ‘"don’t saw sawdust" is a pretty wonderful saying I’d never heard, and it may be the explanation for the silence after all.
I might chalk it up to the general self-preoccupied [and mildly psychotic mood] of the country right now – tea baggers, Beck, Limbaugh, Palin, Senator Shelby from Alabama, etc. But it feels more specific than that. My best guess is that Sadam Hussein was kind of horrible and no one minds him being out of the picture; the feelings for the UN are weak in these post Cold War days; but the biggest force is the memory in our collective unconscious about the Viet Nam War era. It was the time of the Hawks and the Doves, the Draft, the protests, the Hippies, the Yippies, the mistreatment of returning veterans, My Lai, P.T.S.D., the helicopter evacuations, drugs-sex-and-rock-and-roll. It was a period of great disillusionment.
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