Facing Down Incompetence
General Anthony Zinni may have said it best.
In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.
Just replace Iraq with Hurricane Katrina response and it still holds true.
Those complacent with the most responsible powers, who wish to turn our heads away and plug our ears from the blatant incompetence of the current administration, both at home and abroad, might do well to remember this. Their rationale, that it’s always somebody else’s fault, only highlights an ugliness which will sadly never go away—no matter how many lives are disintegrated and lost in the aftermath.
After four long years, their tactics have become old hat. Blame anyone, even the victims, and distract using any trivial piece of information available. It doesn’t matter how weak or irrelevant the point is either, or if it’s even true, just sandbag the argument with distractions and hope that reality becomes diluted. But the inescapable truth this time around is that our government has never been more inept at doing its job. And it’s never been more costly a mistake. To point this out on the four year anniversary of 9/11 should only demonstrate the immediacy needed to ask a simple question: Have we learned nothing?
We, the people, need to face down and deal with incompetence in our government where it stands. U.S. citizens and journalists alike have seen first hand the way the administration sells contradictory talking points to the media in an effort to literally block out reality in a disgusting act of cynicism.
We have to demand better.
I will continue to ignore what I consider to be Dennis Miller’s snide and ultimately losing view of the world. It’s never been valid. The time for questions and answers couldn’t come soon enough.
And somewhere in the wake, between hell and reality, humanity has to get back on its feet.
