Seduced by a powerful cocktail of intoxicating hysteria, America tumbled down the rabbit hole of Bush's Wonderland only to discover the looking glass was a window in reverse with a frightening view.
In 1865, Lewis Carroll authored the famous children's storybook, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. A fairytale laden with satire and allusions, Alice in Wonderland tells the story of a little girl who follows a white rabbit down a hole into a bizarre underworld. Alice emerges into a netherworld beset with anthropomorphic characters that lead her on a series of misadventures in a chaotic society of unruliness, lunacy and utter mayhem. In a distorted and sometimes mockingly perverse way, Carroll endeavors to lampoon his childhood along with the lessons and perils of a careless adolescence in 19th century Britain.
Here in 21st century America, we too, have tumbled down an abysmal hole and materialized in an alternative dream world. For six years, we have been faltering through a mass hallucination of alarm and disbelief, apprehension and discord, addiction and disorder. Our delirium is the somber side-effect of a nation under sedation, induced by a heroin-like injected haze of obfuscation and trepid tentativeness to break free of our "pusher." Ironically, it turns out that in street slang, "white rabbit" is an urban idiom for heroin. A drug marked by paranoia, fear and anxiety.
Shortly after September 11, 2001, America begin to inhale the heavy vapors of Bush's "white rabbit" and we have been "chasing the dragon" ever since. The alleged alleviation, only by way of a Faustian Bargain, was to sell our national soul in exchange for the prevaricated promise that we would be unshackled and set free to awaken from another long, national nightmare. That was never the case. Instead, we were further seduced by a coterie of unsavory characters who suspiciously correlated two arch nemeses together – Saddam and Bin Laden – to formulate a "speedball" cocktail of intoxicating hysteria.
After a patriotic parade of propaganda and deception, the sentinels of our society – Congress – in a frenzy of panic, bequeathed their sole power to declare war to a boorish executive with a galloping case of megalomania and chest-thumping bravado. Thus began, like Alice, our own journey into madness, lawlessness and absolute chaos. We embarked on a war of aggression, under the ruse of seeding democracy and disarming dictators, while munitions manufacturers raked in the revenues and oil barons profited handsomely.
Fortunately, like most addictive drugs, a tolerance factor begins to takes hold. As we yearned and waited for our next fix of the latest formula of Bush's "white rabbit", naively accepting his next white lie, America began to sober up. We awoke from Bush's ghoulish nightmare and hellish war to find not patriots and heroes but pariahs and heretics feeding our addiction and feasting on our own national flesh and blood.
Now cognizant of the untoward carnage of war, America, like Alice upon her return from Wonderland, we fell through the looking glass into the quagmire of Iraq. The mirror that for years reflected back a mirage of a benevolent nation now became a window in reverse. Gazing rearward, Americans could now see the horror, the malevolence, and the gruesome, grim reality of the abject evil we had unleashed on so many people for such a sinister and pointless cause. Adding to our pained view was the vision that while we were presumably exporting democracy to foreign lands, we were killing it here at home.
As the New Year, the new Congress and the newfound will of the America people falls quickly upon us, we must send a clear message to Bush and his cast of recycled, pernicious buffoons. While Bush intends to inflame Iraq's civil war with even more troops – certain to become target practice in a vicious, sectarian feud – Americans have unequivocally said, "No more!"
Bush may be content to be the "mad hatter" in an underhanded world of misguided mischief, but Americans now know that vigilante acts of superficial goodwill are never an acceptable defense to perpetrating a heinous crime, regardless of the perceived noble intentions or eventual outcome. Peering transparently through the looking glass of Iraq in reverse, the "its not fascism, tyranny or imperialism when America does it" just doesn't work anymore; moreover, it never did. It was all just an allusion.
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Frank J. Ranelli is an opinion editorial writer, a research author and critic. He is a former senior editor and current feature writer for the popular online news website, OpEdNews.com. His erudite and chic style of writing has been lauded and extensively published in a variety of news outlets and across the Internet. These include the Naples Daily News, The Online Journal, Information Clearing House, Alternet, The Smirking Chimp, Diatribune, and the former progressive journal of thought, Wicked Philosophy. Frank is currently working on his upcoming book, Rise of the Authoritarians, and is participating as a co-author in prominent philosopher Russell Blackford's anthology, Voices of Disbelief.
Psychologists, such as Dr. Justin Frank, have already attempted to by-proxy diagnosis Bush and arrived at a litany of alarming conclusions. Therefore, I will forgo the analysis of Bush's brain and simply suggest that Bush has indeed not stepped through the looking glass and only admires the reflection staring back at him, rather than seeing the wretched horror beyond the mirror.
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Frank J. Ranelli (66 articles, 143 quicklinks, 29 diaries, 378 comments)
on Friday, December 29, 2006 at 6:41:58 PM
So far that seems like the closest to my idea, circles of chaos to hide the true agenda. That would throw off any untrained Dr. to analyze this inconceivable deceit.
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Fred F (1 articles, 1 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 361 comments)
on Friday, December 29, 2006 at 8:27:25 PM
We agree with the author that the American people were
virtually as drunk with The Liar In Chief Generalissmo
George W Bush's own mad delusions,of a very sick,twisted,
distorted alcoholic and drug addict mind,at work in total
absolute complete insanity,about Bush's reasons to illegaly
invade Iraq! We also add that there never were any WMDs
in Iraq and Saddam Hussein alledged connection to Osama
bin Laden and Al_Qeada also never existed,and yet in the
days immediately after the 9-11 attack on the US by Al_Qeada that the American people blindly followed Bush
into his insanity and delusions,without even giving it a
second thought or asking for real evidence,that Iraq had
WMDs,as Americans wanted to punish someone for 9-11!
However,it should be clear to the vast majority of the
American people by now,that yes in fact we do have a total
mad man in the White House,and one that is Hell bent on
turning his Iraq War Disaster into another lost Viet Nam
War by escaluation of the number of US troops in Iraq,done
under the guise of a "so-called surge' and which Democratic
President John Edwards relabeled correctedly "The McCain
Doctrine" and which many of us,had suspected was the head
Bush buttkisser,and leading GOP Chickenhawk Amnesty John
McCain idea all along,so do we want another psycho like
George W Bush in the White House,in the form of John McCain?
This again is why it absolutely imperative that the
American people make it clear to the new Democratic Congressional "Misleadership" of that San Francisco looney
toons,mental midget Nancy Pelosi and Queen Nancy's Senate
Stooge Hare Brain Harry Reid and both the Gutless Democrat
and Gang Of Perverts Republicans we want this insanity of
George W Bush & Dick Cheney ended by the Immediate Rapid
Impeachment of Both Mad Men George W Bush & Dick Cheney
Forthwith,or we will vote every incumbent Member of Congress out of Office in 2008 and start recalls against
the rest,whose terms end in 2010 or 2012! As, this great
country cannot allow itself to be destroyed by an Out of
Touch With Reality,Virtual Wetbrain Alcoholic And Drug Addict like George W Bush and who is living in the Insanity
of His Addiction and Delusions and that only Impeachment
will also prevent other nutcases from attempting to be
elected President & Vice President,as well!
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Ralph (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 74 comments)
on Tuesday, January 2, 2007 at 12:55:29 AM
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