No shit? I thought it was all over.

It’s the old cut off the head & the body will die.  Doesn’t always work, though, with popular uprisings agains foreign occupation.  And it never works when the natives are willing to die for their cause.  Never, that is, this side of genocide.  Will the powers that be go that far?  That’s our history.  Once upon a time there were hundreds of indigenous nations in our land and about ten million natives The question isn’t whether or not our government is capable of committing genocide, it’s will we the people let them get away with it.

Mr. Bush’s great hoopla (press announcement and coverage) concerning the demise of a particularly virulent Al Queda leader is not a benefit.  Zarqawi’s death should have remained a quiet issue.  It is just terrible that it not only made the news, but, identified the U.S. military as the cause for Zarqawi’s death.  Worse, it is unfathomable that Bush and the Press identified the person who assisted in locating Zarqawi.  Now, the informant, his family, his friends will be on every insurgent’s hit list.  Who would dare help America. We are quickly gaining a reputation for “outing” informants, as well as our own CIA operatives.  This is astonishing in its lack of logic and common sense. It exposes the tragic inability of this government to comport itself judiciously, with concerns toward protecting those who would help this nation fight insurgents, and provide needed intelligence.  I guess Bush and co. are true isolationists.  At the rate they are going diplomacy will lose all meaning in matters dealing with american ideologies.