In college, George Walker Bush was a male cheerleader. George wasn’t an athlete, he didn’t serve in the defining military conflict of his generation, and like so many rich white people, before and after him, he could not avoid the allure of cocaine to help him cope with his feelings of impotence and shame.
Fortunately for us, the American people, God intervened and pulled George out of the dark recesses of drug addiction and moral disgrace, so he could go on to lead his country into the most disastrous military campaign in the history of the world. What an absolute crock of shit.
How can the public entrust the supreme command of the military, the greatest military in the world, to a man so haunted by his lack of masculinity and preponderance of cowardice? The answer is this: a false prosperity blinds the people and threatens to exterminate civilization.
Starting with the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century, modernization and technological sophistication have given birth to a luxury consumer culture that rapes the foundations of cultural and imperial greatness, as it slowly but surely castrates the masculine imperative. The end result is an illusory modern world governed by the mind control mechanisms of Oprah Winfrey, Sex and the City and Cosmopolitan magazine, which all too often find an easy-to-subvert-and-manipulate audience.
America needs change. America needs order. The first measure our government needs to take is amending the constitution so only candidates who have served in battle may be worthy to glorify the dignity, the honor, and the grace of the American presidency.
Only a leader familiar with both, civilian life and military struggle is suited to wear the mask of command. The world wasn’t forged by cupcakes, ice cream socials and pep rallies. No, instead the iron chancellor, Otto Von Bismarck, was right when he prophesized to the Prussian parliament, “this policy cannot succeed through speeches and shooting-matches and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron!”
Granted, Bismarck’s declaration is not without moral hazard, still it is the mentality encoded in this German consciousness that has, to quote Michael Douglas in Wall Street, “marked the upward surge of mankind!” Indeed, Bismarck’s passion reveals the understanding that war is the state of nature.
If war is the axis upon which civilized peace revolves, then the supreme leadership of this great country should be entrusted to a ruler that has first hand experience of the necessities for the art of war. Sun Tzu, author of the 2,500 year old masterpiece, The Art of War, teaches us that ” when you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long is coming, the men’s weapons will grow dull and their ardor dampened” and “when your weapons are dulled, your ardor dampened, your strength exhausted, and your treasure spent, other chieftains will spring up to take advantage of your extremity.”
If George understood the intricacies of actual fighting, America would have avoided the unnecessary and symbolically cataclysmic disaster in Iraq.
A good Shepard would have viewed a second war in Iraq as a conflict detrimental to American and global interests. Either through southern ignorance or deliberate wrath, George Bush has fanned the flame of ape-like biblical prophecy, which threatens to eradicate the majesty and splendor of life on Earth.
Why take an unnecessary war to the cradle of civilization and manipulate the weak minds that are so paralyzed by their fears of Christian revelation? Why not improve domestic defense, invest more in energy transition, and do more to prepare for the looming problems of social security and healthcare deficits. This is what the psychologically neutered, social elites get for choosing a Bush to be president.
Why do you have to add fuel to a needless fire, you silly cheerleader?
About the writer:
Tim Lloyd is a junior english major. He can be reached at [email protected].
