But I'm back. And, I'm pissed off. The latest issue of Harpers's Magazine has a piece by Lewis Lapham titled "Lionhearts" which disputes media accounts that depict the war in Iraq as a complete and total failure. Lapham, in fact, states just the opposite. Comparing Bush and company to the railroad barons and early entrepeneurs of this country, he asserts that this war is a success story. Why? Just take a look at the stock share numbers for corporations "rebuilding" Iraq between 2003-2006: Lockheed Martin $52-$72, Boeing $33-$77, Exxon Mobil $36-$65, Chevron $36-$66, Halliburton $22-$74. Yes, capital accumulation is proceeding unimpeded at quite a clip, regardless of the human/psychological/emotional toll of warfare.
And, now, the US has to be embarrassed once again as our president attempts to deconstruct the meaning of "torture". Derrida (the grand master, patriarch, father of deconstruction) should be rolling over in his grave if he were to witness this stooge engaged in lingusitic acrobatics.
We are fuct.
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