Monkey in the Middle Clusterfuck

Two blog posts I must link to today. The first is from James Kunstler, (Mr. Long Emergency), on the grand, tragic dilemma our country faces. Iraq (the Middle East) vs. Oil (economic viability). Knustler's great theme is that we are in complete denial about our corrosive and fatal addiction to oil, the car culture, suburbia, and strip-mall land. And as he keeps telling us, there are no quick fixes...major life-style changes need to be adopted now, if we are to somehow lessen the catastrophe looming ahead.

Also his line about Iraq is heartbreaking and priceless - it's a "monkey in the middle clusterfuck" situation.

Then there's Andrew Sullivan's post about Bush and Abu Graib. I haven't read Seymour Hersh's latest article in the New Yorker yet, but excepts are devastating...no doubt Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield are war criminals. They have totaly degraded us as a country. They tortured in our name. We too are tainted by their horrific policies. Sullivan has been eloquent and persistent in exposing this terrible stain upon our country, our military, our leaders, and us too.