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If you are a politician then whether you're for staying in Iraq or for withdrawing, you simply cannot state that American policy is destroying at least one country and is not good (let alone any of Wright or Jefferson's trembling at God's Wrath). Americans - in general - simply will not tolerate such talk.
Arthur Silber writes of the "Shocking Immorality of Our Constricted Thought".
http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2007/11/regrettable-misjudgments-shocking.html
As a nation, we are resolute in our refusal to identify the true nature of our actions, and in our refusal to acknowledge the consequences of what we do.
and quotes Massing
How can such a critical feature of the U.S. occupation remain so hidden from view? Because most Americans don't want to know about it. The books by Iraqi vets are filled with expressions of disbelief and rage at the lack of interest ordinary Americans show for what they've had to endure on the battlefield. In "Operation Homecoming," one returning Marine, who takes to drinking heavily in an effort to cope with the crushing guilt and revulsion he feels over how many people he's seen killed, fumes about how "you can't talk to them [ordinary Americans] about the horror of a dead child's lifeless mutilated body staring back at you from the void, knowing you took part in that end."
Because GG and many commenters are not silent, I keep returning here.
