America, Bless Her Heart
America, Bless Her Heart - And Replies
posted July 26, 2006
America, God bless her. It’s not her heart, Lord, it’s her mind. She doesn’t mean to be unkind. She doesn’t know what she’s doing.
She’s just insane and drunk from too much power, self-righteousness, hypocrisy, arrogance, selfishness, greed and stupidity.
It’s hard, if not impossible, for people – even good-hearted people - to think in morally intelligent ways when their minds have become so infected by all these things.
She’s lost her understanding. She has lost the ability to judge wisely and justly. She can’t see the different degrees of wrong and right. Instead of correcting a wrong with a right, she attempts to correct it with a greater wrong without even realizing it.
She has lost her vision and cannot see into the distance. She cannot see to the left or right. She cannot see where she’s been. She cannot see the details in front of her and she cannot see into the night.
There’s nothing that I can do about it. I’m just a cricket in the high weeds in the midst of a buffalo stampede. There are millions of other crickets just like me but how can we be heard over the thundering hooves of 300 million buffalo?
In the great scheme of things, humanity hasn’t made an inch of progress since the dawn of civilization. We’re still settling our differences with war and killing instead of through respectful talk and peaceful means.
Before America dropped the first atomic bomb and learned that she could rule the world by killing the women and children of her enemies by the hundreds of thousands, it didn’t make much difference.
But now that we’ve moved so deep into the nuclear age with this terrible power to destroy all life on earth, we continue to enforce our imperial will on the world through war and the collateral killing of the innocent, while washing the guilty blood from our hands and claiming that we are just defending ourselves and doing the righteous thing according to God’s will.
We think that because we have more nuclear missiles and other weapons of mass destruction than all the other nations of the world combined, we can have our way with the weaker nations and shape their governments to suit our needs, while claiming that we are just trying to make the world safe for democracy and lasting peace.
We think that because we are the only Super Power, we can maintain alliances with the seven or eight other nations that have nuclear weapons and outlaw any attempts by the weaker nations to develop nuclear weapons.
We think that it is great wisdom for us to extend our nuclear capabilities into space so that we can better defend our nation and our allies against nuclear attack.
We think that no other nation should object to this because it is purely a defensive measure and that the United States, being so good and so loved by God, would never use such an advantage to her advantage and force all the other nations to submit to her desires.
If America could see herself as others see her, she would see why she can’t be trusted to rule the world with her iron fist and the strength of her war machine and her nuclear weapons.
She would see why her word and her moral reasoning can no longer be trusted. But America, blinded by the glow of her own self-righteous goodness, is not ever going to see that.
Look closely at America now. Is she much different in her ways than in those days when she determined that God had given her this land and that the native people that lived here were nothing more than savages and terrorists not worthy of being listened to or allowed to co-exist, even on their own land?
Didn’t that vote of 410 – 8 in the People’s House just last week, when we failed to call for a ceasefire and threw our complete support to Israel, giving her the green light to continue her killing of Lebanese civilians as if she were the one suffering the disproportionate amount of civilian deaths and not the other way around, show the world our true mind?
Too much has taken place over the past month to go into all the details, but apparently this latest increase in speed toward World War III was triggered on June 25 when Palestinian militants killed two Israeli soldiers and captured a third at an army post on the Israel-Gaza border.
Apparently the objective of the militants was to trade the captured soldier for more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners (including many women and minors) but Israel’s reaction was to attack with missiles and move troops into Gaza, even though she would have still had about 8,000 prisoners left if she had given in to the demands.
The UN Security Council debated a draft resolution demanding an immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces and the release of detained Palestinian officials which she had captured, but the U.S. prevented it, claiming that the resolution was unbalanced.
On July 12, while Israel was bombing the Gaza Strip, killing 22 Palestinians (the score would be about 100 to 1 within a few days), a group of Hezbollah guerrillas, using a rocket attack against several Israeli towns as a diversion, sneaked across the contested border and captured a couple of soldiers and killed three more, according to press reports, apparently for the purpose of demanding the release of more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners and a Lebanese prisoner to boot.
Israel’s response was to scorch the earth and rain down death and destruction on Lebanon. By July 25 she had killed about 380 Lebanese (mostly civilians) and had suffered about 40 deaths (17 civilians and 23 soldiers). She had also displaced over 700,000 Lebanese from their homes and torn the country’s infrastructure to shreds, wounding about 1,100 and causing billions of dollars in damage.
President George W. Bush and the US Congress, apparently reflecting the mind of the American people, made no effort to stop this fight and prevent the unnecessary overkill of the innocent and the leveling of the country.
Their reasoning was that Israel had the right to defend herself, case closed. Their reasoning was that Hamas in Palestine and Hezbollah in Lebanon were terrorist organizations whose method of fighting was to kill innocent civilians for the purpose of wiping Israel off the map and forcing their religion on the world. Case closed.
Their reasoning, apparently, was that the democratic governments of Lebanon and Palestine were not legitimate because they included members of Hamas and Hezbollah and allowed the militant strains of these groups sanctuary within their borders.
And as President Bush indicated in his off-the-cuff remark to Great Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair at the G-8 peace summit, Syria could stop this in a minute if she wanted to. And Iran is to blame too for supporting Hamas and Hezbollah with money to buy weapons.
Apparently America is unwilling to ask for a ceasefire and an end to all this unnecessary killing of the innocents and the continued destruction of these two lands and their democratically elected governments until all the terrorists have been forced to disband and lay down their arms. Case closed.
And so the war goes on and heats up, with the apparent hope by Bush and his homeboys that they can pull Syria and Iran into it and then beat them into the ground with their superior weapons and firepower, and their clever ability to divide and conquer the Arab world through their power, wealth and influence.
Meanwhile our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are boiling nicely and we’re keeping a watchful eye on North Korea, in case she gives us a legitimate excuse to blow her out of the water and finally claim victory in the Korean War.
And when we’ve finished with all of this, we’ve still got Russia and China on our plate, but we’re a people with big appetites and several more courses to go through before we’ve completed our meal of consuming all the bad guys in the name of Jesus and everlasting peace in the world.
It’s not her heart, Lord, it’s her mind. She won’t negotiate with terrorists but she doesn’t understand that the greatest terrorists are the ones that kill the most innocents and that it doesn’t make any difference if the killing is done under the legitimate cover of a uniform or a breech cloth.
If the terrorists are still fighting after half a century, could it be possible that their reasons are not no simple as an abiding hate for our freedoms and their desires to wipe Israel off the map and force the world to give up their religions and accept Islam?
Isn’t there even the vaguest possibility that they might be fighting for one of their own, so that they can have a piece of the ground that their ancestors left them to live on freely and independently like any other nation of people on earth?
We can never know unless we allow them the respect of sitting with us under the pipe of peace and allow them to speak of their true desires and their needs as common people who walk the earth as equals to all other human beings.
Even if America is unable to accept this, with all her intelligence, why is she unable to realize that the faster we race towards nuclear war, the more space we’re going to need to slow down before we hit the wall?
Why is it so hard for America to understand that she has been going too fast in the direction of atomic destruction for too long and should have started slowing down a long time ago?
When we take that last strike and the final war hits us in the face, what difference is it going to make who was right and who was wrong, who started it or who Jesus loves the best?
It’s not her heart, Lord, it’s her mind. Even if she brings about the final destruction of mankind, never let it be said that she knew what she was doing, or that she didn’t go down swinging.
With all her quoting from the Good Book, and the Ten Commandments and her claims of love, she never thought about the hate she was creating, or that it would have a greater destructive force when finally unleashed than all her nuclear bombs.
Naman Crowe
namancrowe@yahoo.com
* * *
Initially I agreed with what Naman had to say, but then my eyes glossed over and I felt the urgent need for a
hot cup of joe.
Oh, and I disagree with the cricket analogy; I would have chosen a social creature like the ant or termite. You know, something that blindly follows the leader - kind of like Republicans.
Anyway, don't sweat it, Naman. It won't be long now until we run out of something like oil, food, or water and the do-do really hits the fan, and I, for one, hope it happens in my lifetime. I may only be able to gloat for a few minutes or maybe a few weeks, but I'll enjoy watching the show.
Ike Conn
ikeconn@yahoo.com
* * *
As the crickets enjoyed the peace and prosperity which was brought on by the Reagan Revolution, they were the lost bugs in high weeds.
While the crickets were in power during the 90’s they went about “Changing their world” by selling technology and influence to the birds who they thought were their friends and refusing to acknowledge and deal with the snakes that they thought were harmless.
Then in September of 2001 the snake bit the buffalo which caused a stampede. The roar of the movement scared off the birds and caused the crickets great fear because their “friends” the birds were no where to be found as the buffalo took care of what was neglected during the time the crickets had control.
As one of the buffalo to the crickets I find nowhere in history that we have stampeded unprovoked and from your view you don’t see how small the prairie has become nor do you understand that the snakes and birds eat crickets.
A proverb for thought.
Jay Reed
Hixson
ascchatt@comcast.net
* * *
Mr. Crowe,
America, as a country and as a people, has no monopoly on hatred. Have you ever studied world history? The only difference in now and thousands of years past is advanced technology.
You see, God knew that if he gave mankind enough rope, that he would eventually hang himself.
Remember, it is not those who quote God’s will, or those who hear God’s will who are His children, but it those that do God’s will. You need to learn to make the distinction. God certainly will.
Michael Helton
mchtlh@aol.com
* * *
I trust (and sincerely hope) your writer, Naman Crowe, is immigrating to Iran. He certainly isn't much of an American.
Nat Hooper
Oxford, Ar.
nhoop616@gmail.com
posted July 26, 2006
America, God bless her. It’s not her heart, Lord, it’s her mind. She doesn’t mean to be unkind. She doesn’t know what she’s doing.
She’s just insane and drunk from too much power, self-righteousness, hypocrisy, arrogance, selfishness, greed and stupidity.
It’s hard, if not impossible, for people – even good-hearted people - to think in morally intelligent ways when their minds have become so infected by all these things.
She’s lost her understanding. She has lost the ability to judge wisely and justly. She can’t see the different degrees of wrong and right. Instead of correcting a wrong with a right, she attempts to correct it with a greater wrong without even realizing it.
She has lost her vision and cannot see into the distance. She cannot see to the left or right. She cannot see where she’s been. She cannot see the details in front of her and she cannot see into the night.
There’s nothing that I can do about it. I’m just a cricket in the high weeds in the midst of a buffalo stampede. There are millions of other crickets just like me but how can we be heard over the thundering hooves of 300 million buffalo?
In the great scheme of things, humanity hasn’t made an inch of progress since the dawn of civilization. We’re still settling our differences with war and killing instead of through respectful talk and peaceful means.
Before America dropped the first atomic bomb and learned that she could rule the world by killing the women and children of her enemies by the hundreds of thousands, it didn’t make much difference.
But now that we’ve moved so deep into the nuclear age with this terrible power to destroy all life on earth, we continue to enforce our imperial will on the world through war and the collateral killing of the innocent, while washing the guilty blood from our hands and claiming that we are just defending ourselves and doing the righteous thing according to God’s will.
We think that because we have more nuclear missiles and other weapons of mass destruction than all the other nations of the world combined, we can have our way with the weaker nations and shape their governments to suit our needs, while claiming that we are just trying to make the world safe for democracy and lasting peace.
We think that because we are the only Super Power, we can maintain alliances with the seven or eight other nations that have nuclear weapons and outlaw any attempts by the weaker nations to develop nuclear weapons.
We think that it is great wisdom for us to extend our nuclear capabilities into space so that we can better defend our nation and our allies against nuclear attack.
We think that no other nation should object to this because it is purely a defensive measure and that the United States, being so good and so loved by God, would never use such an advantage to her advantage and force all the other nations to submit to her desires.
If America could see herself as others see her, she would see why she can’t be trusted to rule the world with her iron fist and the strength of her war machine and her nuclear weapons.
She would see why her word and her moral reasoning can no longer be trusted. But America, blinded by the glow of her own self-righteous goodness, is not ever going to see that.
Look closely at America now. Is she much different in her ways than in those days when she determined that God had given her this land and that the native people that lived here were nothing more than savages and terrorists not worthy of being listened to or allowed to co-exist, even on their own land?
Didn’t that vote of 410 – 8 in the People’s House just last week, when we failed to call for a ceasefire and threw our complete support to Israel, giving her the green light to continue her killing of Lebanese civilians as if she were the one suffering the disproportionate amount of civilian deaths and not the other way around, show the world our true mind?
Too much has taken place over the past month to go into all the details, but apparently this latest increase in speed toward World War III was triggered on June 25 when Palestinian militants killed two Israeli soldiers and captured a third at an army post on the Israel-Gaza border.
Apparently the objective of the militants was to trade the captured soldier for more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners (including many women and minors) but Israel’s reaction was to attack with missiles and move troops into Gaza, even though she would have still had about 8,000 prisoners left if she had given in to the demands.
The UN Security Council debated a draft resolution demanding an immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces and the release of detained Palestinian officials which she had captured, but the U.S. prevented it, claiming that the resolution was unbalanced.
On July 12, while Israel was bombing the Gaza Strip, killing 22 Palestinians (the score would be about 100 to 1 within a few days), a group of Hezbollah guerrillas, using a rocket attack against several Israeli towns as a diversion, sneaked across the contested border and captured a couple of soldiers and killed three more, according to press reports, apparently for the purpose of demanding the release of more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners and a Lebanese prisoner to boot.
Israel’s response was to scorch the earth and rain down death and destruction on Lebanon. By July 25 she had killed about 380 Lebanese (mostly civilians) and had suffered about 40 deaths (17 civilians and 23 soldiers). She had also displaced over 700,000 Lebanese from their homes and torn the country’s infrastructure to shreds, wounding about 1,100 and causing billions of dollars in damage.
President George W. Bush and the US Congress, apparently reflecting the mind of the American people, made no effort to stop this fight and prevent the unnecessary overkill of the innocent and the leveling of the country.
Their reasoning was that Israel had the right to defend herself, case closed. Their reasoning was that Hamas in Palestine and Hezbollah in Lebanon were terrorist organizations whose method of fighting was to kill innocent civilians for the purpose of wiping Israel off the map and forcing their religion on the world. Case closed.
Their reasoning, apparently, was that the democratic governments of Lebanon and Palestine were not legitimate because they included members of Hamas and Hezbollah and allowed the militant strains of these groups sanctuary within their borders.
And as President Bush indicated in his off-the-cuff remark to Great Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair at the G-8 peace summit, Syria could stop this in a minute if she wanted to. And Iran is to blame too for supporting Hamas and Hezbollah with money to buy weapons.
Apparently America is unwilling to ask for a ceasefire and an end to all this unnecessary killing of the innocents and the continued destruction of these two lands and their democratically elected governments until all the terrorists have been forced to disband and lay down their arms. Case closed.
And so the war goes on and heats up, with the apparent hope by Bush and his homeboys that they can pull Syria and Iran into it and then beat them into the ground with their superior weapons and firepower, and their clever ability to divide and conquer the Arab world through their power, wealth and influence.
Meanwhile our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are boiling nicely and we’re keeping a watchful eye on North Korea, in case she gives us a legitimate excuse to blow her out of the water and finally claim victory in the Korean War.
And when we’ve finished with all of this, we’ve still got Russia and China on our plate, but we’re a people with big appetites and several more courses to go through before we’ve completed our meal of consuming all the bad guys in the name of Jesus and everlasting peace in the world.
It’s not her heart, Lord, it’s her mind. She won’t negotiate with terrorists but she doesn’t understand that the greatest terrorists are the ones that kill the most innocents and that it doesn’t make any difference if the killing is done under the legitimate cover of a uniform or a breech cloth.
If the terrorists are still fighting after half a century, could it be possible that their reasons are not no simple as an abiding hate for our freedoms and their desires to wipe Israel off the map and force the world to give up their religions and accept Islam?
Isn’t there even the vaguest possibility that they might be fighting for one of their own, so that they can have a piece of the ground that their ancestors left them to live on freely and independently like any other nation of people on earth?
We can never know unless we allow them the respect of sitting with us under the pipe of peace and allow them to speak of their true desires and their needs as common people who walk the earth as equals to all other human beings.
Even if America is unable to accept this, with all her intelligence, why is she unable to realize that the faster we race towards nuclear war, the more space we’re going to need to slow down before we hit the wall?
Why is it so hard for America to understand that she has been going too fast in the direction of atomic destruction for too long and should have started slowing down a long time ago?
When we take that last strike and the final war hits us in the face, what difference is it going to make who was right and who was wrong, who started it or who Jesus loves the best?
It’s not her heart, Lord, it’s her mind. Even if she brings about the final destruction of mankind, never let it be said that she knew what she was doing, or that she didn’t go down swinging.
With all her quoting from the Good Book, and the Ten Commandments and her claims of love, she never thought about the hate she was creating, or that it would have a greater destructive force when finally unleashed than all her nuclear bombs.
Naman Crowe
namancrowe@yahoo.com
* * *
Initially I agreed with what Naman had to say, but then my eyes glossed over and I felt the urgent need for a
hot cup of joe.
Oh, and I disagree with the cricket analogy; I would have chosen a social creature like the ant or termite. You know, something that blindly follows the leader - kind of like Republicans.
Anyway, don't sweat it, Naman. It won't be long now until we run out of something like oil, food, or water and the do-do really hits the fan, and I, for one, hope it happens in my lifetime. I may only be able to gloat for a few minutes or maybe a few weeks, but I'll enjoy watching the show.
Ike Conn
ikeconn@yahoo.com
* * *
As the crickets enjoyed the peace and prosperity which was brought on by the Reagan Revolution, they were the lost bugs in high weeds.
While the crickets were in power during the 90’s they went about “Changing their world” by selling technology and influence to the birds who they thought were their friends and refusing to acknowledge and deal with the snakes that they thought were harmless.
Then in September of 2001 the snake bit the buffalo which caused a stampede. The roar of the movement scared off the birds and caused the crickets great fear because their “friends” the birds were no where to be found as the buffalo took care of what was neglected during the time the crickets had control.
As one of the buffalo to the crickets I find nowhere in history that we have stampeded unprovoked and from your view you don’t see how small the prairie has become nor do you understand that the snakes and birds eat crickets.
A proverb for thought.
Jay Reed
Hixson
ascchatt@comcast.net
* * *
Mr. Crowe,
America, as a country and as a people, has no monopoly on hatred. Have you ever studied world history? The only difference in now and thousands of years past is advanced technology.
You see, God knew that if he gave mankind enough rope, that he would eventually hang himself.
Remember, it is not those who quote God’s will, or those who hear God’s will who are His children, but it those that do God’s will. You need to learn to make the distinction. God certainly will.
Michael Helton
mchtlh@aol.com
* * *
I trust (and sincerely hope) your writer, Naman Crowe, is immigrating to Iran. He certainly isn't much of an American.
Nat Hooper
Oxford, Ar.
nhoop616@gmail.com
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