Power And The Apathy

It's what drives problems: apathy. And it's what national 'leaders' thrive on. They feed on the apathy and it's how dreadful actions become (almost) justified and excused. Millions of people are murdered in allegedly illegal wars and it's all forgotten. Time moves on, but the consequences of actions do not. As fewer of the original, and more aged, survivors remain more calls are made that it's time to let bygones be bygones. The pain of the reality by those who lived through such terrible times is just a nuisance reminder to those who were too young to know it. In the last century, in two World Wars, millions of people perished and any attempts to prevent a third world conflict are ignored. Yet, conflicts like Vietnam, Korea and Iraq are too far away to be real.

Greeting Bush With A Yawn

• Europe was looking past Bush even before he arrived. Gone were the scathing editorials and bitter antiwar protests that once drew 1 million people to the piazzas of Rome and 100,000 to the streets of London. Italian officials said there were no more than a or so this time; British organizers expected less than 10,000. In Germany, there were only two dozen (24) angry demonstrators in a village near the castle, their protest for higher farm subsidies aimed at Merkel, not Bush. "Even the demonstrators have lost interest in Bush," wrote Handelsblatt, a German business daily. "...that the overall mood will be one of good riddance," said The Guardian just before Bush arrived in London. Le Monde put it more gently: "Tourner la page Bush."

Every casualty of war is an individual, but sight must not be lost of the fact that many 1000s of Iraqi civilians (men, women and children) have died even if a 100 British soldiers have been killed. The war will continue and there is no end in sight. Pandora's box was opened when Blair 'decided' to go to war. It wasn't a conflict supported by the majority of British people, but it happened nevertheless for mostly unknown reasons. Bush wanted a war and he got one. Blair was sucked in through naivety (being generous) or ignorance (even more generous). Either way he is responsible for the ongoing aftermath as he continues on his quest for more money. Pontificating to audiences of lemmings, who just go where they're told. People of no consequence, but probably of influence.

That is the pathetic thing about power: wealth and influence bring perceived, but non-existent, intelligence.

Wars are politics driven. And at the bottom of the pile and hidden under layers of lies and more lies is money. Everything is about money, power and control, but mostly money as the other two are just the biproducts of money and wealth.