Has America passed the point of no-return where dying cultures arrive when their internal logic and external conversations descends into illiteracy, and then madness? Perhaps. For example, how is it possible that persons fresh from the site of outbreak of one of the world’s worst viruses, simply walk off airplanes into American cities? Or, consider the dangerous, utterly indefensible policy of allowing the border to stay open, and illegal entries to cross, allowed to stay, even when criminal convictions for violent crimes are proved. Again, the US victoriously leaving Iraq, only forced to return a few years later, in the midst of a horrific uprising of bloodthirsty Muslim radicals, merely proves the most obvious point—that America lacks leadership at the highest levels. But the Ebola crisis brings bad policy to the new threshold of indefensible self-harm. The policy is so bad, tenable reasons against travel bans can’t even be articulated. The violence of this disease was such that the sick communicated it to the healthy who came near them, just as a fire catches anything dry or oily near it. And it even went further. To speak to or go near the sick brought infection and a common death to the living; and moreover, to touch the clothes or anything else the sick had touched or worn gave the disease to the person touching.—The Decameron—Giovanni Boccaccio It’s a testimony of the novelty and plain awfulness of Obama’s Ebola Policy that we can quite boldy state that it is unprecedented, even for him. Like a phoenix returning to its smoking pyre, Barack repeatedly treads the shambolic trail of failure. Like Friedrich Nietzsche’s Eternal Return, the White House seems to repeatedly plot a course towards the center of the sun, in the apparent conviction that only self-annihilation is a worthy goal of US policy. But what happened to the principled Republican and Democrat leaders who are supposed to stand up for us when we are getting beaten down by the corrupt powers that be in DC? Are we really so isolated? Do we really deserve no protection from mad leaders, whatsoever?
Posted on: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 13:16:20 +0000
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