Redemption is always possible, the question is if the US will loose a generation or maybe more before they have the courage and decency to own up to what's been happening these last 8 years.
People are forgiving, but you need to apologize before that will happen.
The great thing about apologizing is that it becomes easier if you apply justice and proove that you mean what you declare.
Everybody fucks up, every country fucks up, it's what you do afterwards that matters, greatness is demonstrated if
1. you rectify what's gone wrong
2. you learn from it
3. you prosecute the guilty aka apply justice
4. you apologize to the victims
What makes it infuriating in the US' case is that when the US fucks up, it doesn't keep quiet for a while like most countries do or apologize like a great country should do, no, it takes out a megaphone and starts shouting how great, pure and the best it is, how it (and only it) stands for all that's good in the world, although it just disprooved it by it's earlier actions/crimes.
I really hope talking heads on TV will can the "America is the last great hope for humanity"-line, because if that's true under these circumstances, humanity is truely and deeply fucked and ... lost.
Even if Obama turns the economy around, sets up the greatest health care system EVER, ... he'll never be a great leader as long as he doesn't address the crimes that have been commited under the previous administration.
>terribly underrated and prophetic film, The Siege
loved that movie from the moment it came out, it truely was prophetic. Hated it when people said it was racist against muslims (because of scenes of muslims locked up), where they even watching the same movie? I think Bush saw that movie and thought Bruce Willis is right.
I truely hope Obama starts leading, eventhough a big part of the population isn't behind him on the issue. Great leaders are ahead of the majority or a big part of the population, people like FDR, Churchill, Ataturk & Robert Schuman in the previous century.
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callisto on
05/13/2009 07:02:36 PM EST
