Bush is a Motha Fucka

Another step on the road to Iran:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/world/middleeast/13cnd-prexy.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

What is really truly amazing to me is that they actually -- for real -- think that they can use the same line as in '02-'03 to get everyone on board. And what is even more truly amazing is that I am totally convinced that there is absolutely nothing we can do, except by a change of administration, that can stop them from pulling it off. The power of the Executive is, simply by the nature of our government's institutional construction, capable of getting this country to follow in its step if it actually wants the country to.

"ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — President Bush urged wary Persian Gulf allies on Sunday to rally against Iran “before it is too late,” even as the International Atomic Energy Agency announced that the country had agreed to answer outstanding questions about its nuclear programs within four weeks.

All the departments support the message of the executive or of the particular party in power -- which is a distortion of the people's will. All structures are a distortion of the peoples' will because the will changes too fast for structures to keep up with. So the question is whether it is "better," somehow -- perhaps in individual survival terms -- for us to have a governmental structure that leads to distortions of the peoples' will or not.

Which leads to better overall outcomes: The peoples' will, or distortions that benefit from the advantage of being able to attempt very long term goals?

There are perhaps some things that could be nice to achieve that would take a long time and require very long term goals to structure behavior. But there is a cost to these types of goals: local political backlash.

Which is worse: The consequences of local backlash, or the limitations of goals and the likely volatility of private politics?

These days, with nukes and bio-chems, and nano-tech and bio-engineering advances, along with proliferation of missile technologies and asymmetric military tactics, I'm leaning towards local backlash.