Posted by
Sam Heath on Thursday, December 28, 2006 12:22:57 PM
When it comes to things like sausage “Don’t ask; enjoy” is good advice. And were it not for the importance of the issues and so little to enjoy one might apply the same advice to politics. Superficially the present disarray of our political “leadership” would make good comic opera were it not for the consequences of such a comical farce and the lack of a good score and conductor.
Certainly the words coming out of Foggy Bottom are comical, and one might be excused for thinking given the inanity of the speakers they are intended to be funny. Surely, we ask ourselves, these people don’t truly believe they are to be taken seriously, do they? So, are We the People to laugh or cry?
The wars of Caesar Bush are dead serious business given the enormity of the consequences in human sacrifices and economically. It is no less dead serious business that we have come to expect no one in government is ever to be held accountable for greed, corruption, nepotism, cronyism, even stupidity resulting in danger to America and the loss of lives. Rather, such things when discovered are referred to committees; another act of our “leadership” Republican and Democrat that we have come to learn is dedicated to either whitewashing or even exonerating the guilty.
A good comic opera would at least have consequences attendant on words and actions, and with a good musical score and conductor we enjoy the play and anticipate a happy outcome. But many a comic farce has a dark side, typical of the best of humor. However, we are not even being offered the best of humor, only the dark side of the players on the DC stage. Try as we may, there seems nothing comic about this except for the fact so many of the players seem to really believe their words are to be taken seriously all the while their actions belying and contradicting their words.
But it appears the nations of the world are in little better case than America. However, while other nations act in their own best interests when it comes to things like national heritage, culture, identity, national sovereignty and borders, trade agreements, the same cannot be said of America where our leadership seems far more intent on the next election than actually solving the growing problems right here in America reflecting the problems one would usually associate with third world nations. And this better lends itself to a Grand Opera Gotterdammerung Armageddon than anything approaching comic opera.