Events

I have ignored this blog, Internal Decay, for months because even though I had things to grump about it didn’t seem “cost effective” in time and emotion to write about them. Unfortunately the events that hit the news this week about the torture and misconduct to the Iraq prisoners by American government service people have shoved me out of my apathetic and individualistic mood.

Yes, always there is someone in a service as large as the military that will do what’s easiest and most beneficial. They will do things that they know are wrong but they want the pressure to be relieved. Make it someone else’s problem. That happens in all large organizations. We have rules, codes of honor, chains of command, and especially laws from our Constitution and treaties with other nations that are supposed to prevent such occurrences. Make no mistake about this event. The little people in the military organization were responding to the pressures and the culture of those above them.

Remember Occam’s razor. William of Occam is known for the scientific and philosophic rule that entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily which is interpreted as requiring that the simplest of competing theories be preferred to the more complex or that explanations of unknown phenomena be sought first in terms of known quantities.

Known quantities in this case is the manner of how Pres. Bush and his administration have acted since the 2000 election.
Remember:
- the Koyoto Treaty
- the ABM treaty
- the Guantanamo Bay prisoners
- the declaring of war
- the lowering of taxes after declaring war (?)
- the alienating of our closest allies in the world (Australia turning to China; United Kingdom resenting being dragged into war on false pretenses)
- the non-funding of federal programs (while saying he espousing them)
- the environmental policy
- the Patriot Act

The list is long and those were events just in the forefront of my mind. Whether you agree or disagree with those events, remember the manner in which they came about - this administrations’ manner of action.

Now we have vividly seen part of the fruit of what Pres. Bushes administration is bearing. Most importantly, is this the way we want to go?

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