This is not how it's supposed to work
President Bush calls seven million people world-wide, who come out to protest a war, a 'focus group.' We send letters and call our congressional representatives and the White House. We talk and we listen and we propose solutions, but it makes no difference. Our voices don't matter.
From Brian Doherty at Reason:
It seemed, for a moment, almost important—like democracy, a free people debating the most vital issue affecting the polis. But no one said what undoubtedly many of us were feeling, like a nagging sickness: It didn't matter. The world will little note nor long remember what they said there. But it will never forget what George W. Bush's army does in Iraq. Americans argued, prattled, commented, editorialized, marched in the streets, waved signs. None of it mattered a whit to the hyperpower. To the hyperpower, we are subjects, not citizens. It doesn't matter what we think when it comes to war. Politics, after all, stops at the water's edge, right?
Comments
With all due respect, the majority of Americans support the President in his endeavor to disarm and liberate Iraq. Our president, as of the last numbers I saw had a 65% approval rating as well. If he were to capitulate on his decision based on what the anti-war protesters want, he'd be discounting the voices of the majority. That doesn't make any sense.
Posted by: Tess | March 20, 2003 03:51 PM
The majority of Americans do not support unilateral and preemptive war on Iraq.
And I don't think he should 'capitulate.' That's not at all what this is about. I think he should listen and participate.
Posted by: debco | March 20, 2003 06:08 PM