- Who can forget the good old days when an angry mob pelted
Richard Nixon with rotten eggs in Caracas? Or when Edgar Bergen quipped
that heíd been stoned more times than an American embassy? When
the rallying cry of the rest of the world was "Yankee Go Home"?
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- Now that the future of America (and the world) is in
the hands of a band of religious crackpots who use the word "evil"
with alarming regularity to justify their own political, military, and
diplomatic illiteracy, there is only one justifiable universal response:
"Yankee Go Home!"
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- The slogan of a by-gone era of American grandiosity,
it has a certain ring of validity today, as George W. Bush, supremely confident
that he has been chosen by God to rid the world of evil, jogs forth to
save us from Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon, North Korea, and
a host of other countries. Bolstered by a nut case from the Rand Corporation
who is an associate of that perennial paranoid, Lyndon Larouche, telling
us, at the behest of warmonger Richard Perle, that Saudi Arabia is a "kernel
of evil" and our mortal enemy, Bush has not doubt about his mission
ñ to save us all by blowing us all up.
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- But there is an out. Suppose everyone simply told America,
"Thanks, but no thanks." Itís starting to happen. Even
Israel is beginning to sit up and take notice, uneasy with the unholy alliance
Ariel Sharon has entered into with the lunatic fringe who believe the Jews
will all become Protestants once the heathens have been routed by military
might.
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- The leader of this odd coalition of the Anti-Defamation
League and the wacky, self-appointed God squad is none other than Ralph
Reed, GOP and Enron whiz bang consultant, Christian Coalition leader, and
chairman of the Republican Party of Georgia. Does that take your breath
away or what?
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- As we fold up our tents and march off >into the sunset,
one can hear the sigh of relief emanating from Cairo to Karachi, from Bogot·
to Bombay. And George W. Bush can leave Washington to take up permanent
residence in Crawford, Texas, where he can jog to his heartís content,
knowing that he did his best to wreck the world.
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- Richard Cummings is a playwright, novelist, and international
lawyer. He went home ages ago, but is still a member of the Association
of Former Intelligence Officers.
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- Copyright © 2002 by LewRockwell.com
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