We lost the war.

As I was waiting for the train today I was thinking about why we're at war, why Osama bin Laden attacked us and why we're involved in this thing with Al-Qaida. King George tells us that they hate our freedom, they're attacking our freedom, and I guess they are, I guess they do...Maybe they're jealous, or maybe they think that capitalism is inherently evil, and maybe it is. Here's what I think. If Al-Qaida wanted to attack us to destroy our freedoms and destroy our way of life and tear apart our country, they have been more successful with one single blast than I'm sure they ever dreamed. Those twelve guys that murdered thousands of people with four airplanes brought heaps of success onto themselves and their comrades. Just look at what their actions have wrought. Now, America is in a death-lock with the Iraq war, stretching her resources very thin indeed to keep up the battle-pace. Meanwhile, America's attentions have turned away from her own corporeality, the plentiful gaze is on the military and keeping the fighting machine running without a draft or any of the other old war measures that used to be in place. Thus America is dying from the inside, like an old leathery smoker woman, piling on cakes of expensive makeup to "keep up appearances", buying expensive clothing and accessories to adorn the wasted body inside them. But it is to no avail. The downfall has begun. The terrorists have won, more than they ever intended. They wanted capitalism to crumble into ruin, beginning with the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. And look, America, look at the wasteland around you, look at our wasted beaches, our burning forests, look at our dying children, our shut-up factories and businesses, look at the farms crippled with pestilence and drought. Look at the Dickensian world we have created together with the terrorists, where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, where all those tools that we built to hold our fundamental democratic rights in place have been destroyed by greed and hubris. Even our sense of justice has died, that we see this all around us and wallow in our apathy, crippled by fear and ignorance.

So, next time you want to wave a flag or be proud of America, think of how we have lost, think of what we sacrificed the day we decided to invest in the prosperity of war rather than of our country. The mission was indeed accomplished, as King George put it, but preserving our freedoms was apparently not part of that mission. So let us march onward to preserve the freedoms of teh Iraqi people, while our own country falls into ruin. Let us sit back and admire the repulsive beauty of our hubris.