Dick Cheney Has No Internal Monologue
So, here’s another thing we can get rid of. The whole idea that there’s some theoretical line of devestatingly insulting accusations that we cannot cross when talking about our own leaders. It’s patently unAmerican, and what’s more, it more or less prevents the truth from being spoken about the war profiteers and criminals currently running the show. Because apparently Iran was willing to make virtually all of the concessions we want from them. Willing to make them three or four years ago, and their counter-requests were so reasonable, it’s almost difficult to believe that they came out of Iran at all. Colin Powell practically peed himself pink, brought the letter directly to the Vice President’s office (which should tell you who wears the pants right there), only to have Dick Cheney toss it aside under the mantra of “We Don’t Talk To Evil”.
In Dick’s fake, showfront world, he actually expects everyone he disagrees with to wake up one morning and spontaneously acquiesce to our every whim and demand without any opposing concessions. Or maybe he really believes that our piss poor planning in Iraq is going to scare the rest of the world into obediance. It’s really amazing that even one in every three or four Americans can buy into such a steaming pile. And that really only leaves me with one alternative, since Cheney is a lot of things, but stupid isn’t one of them. He must want Iran to go rogue, to pull away from us, to act militarily. He must want war. And why wouldn’t he? It’s so very good for business.
And that’s one of those things you can’t say. That the Neoconservatives want war because it’s making their large fortunes even larger. That if there’d been no money in the oil and no money in the reconstruction, there would never have been a war in Iraq. That we’re being led by people who couldn’t make an honest buck if they tried, and know that the bigger the miasma surrounding a war, the more oppertunity there is for money to just disappear. That we’re being driven off a cliff but a group of people that maybe, just maybe, are fuckin’ psyhotic.
If he even had a hint of a moral compass, he would have opened talks with Iran. Even if you think they’re lying, even if you think they’re trying to pull a con, you open negotiations. Because that’s the hardest part. Besides, as a businessman (and Cheney is a good one), he should be used to sitting down at a negotiating table and assuming that the other guy is a lying prick – that’s business, kids. Besides, we most certainly do talk to evil. We talk to the Saudis, who are at least as heinous as the Iranians. We talk to North Korea. Hell, we even talked to the old Iraqi government, which was so evil we needed to overthrow it. And before 9/11, we talked to the Taliban. We talked to the former Soviet Union, who I was told as a child were evil. We even talked to the Nazis, and if you want a textbook definition of evil, look no further.
Someone needs to start calling them out on this business. That the Vice President had a chance to negotiate a workable peace with Iran, end their support of terrorism and bring newfound transparency to their nuklear program, but chose not to based on a rhetorical cliche, is so unconscienable that it’s a bloody crime. Literally.
I wish I believed in hell, because it’d be a tiny comfort to know Cheney was headed there.
