Farewell Cindy Sheehan June 3, 2007

Picture: The anti-war mom realizes that she was a pawn after all.

Finally, Cindy Sheehan has ”resigned” from her unofficial post of anti- war mom. As much as I totally understood her grief and helpless rage at the war president, Mr. Dubya, I pitied the way Democrats and the so called pro Democrat Liberal media quickly turned her into an anti war poster girl. The poor woman was drained of her emotions, energy, time and whatever else she sincerely put at stake. In her own words: “I’ve been wondering why I’m killing myself and wondering why the Democrats caved in to George Bush. I’m going home now for awhile to try and be normal.” I am relieved that she finally realized that but wonder what took her so long!?

There is essentially one major difference between activists like Cindy Sheehan and the good old politicians. The latter know how to use the former and the former got no idea! Cindy Sheehan’s fragile and agitated emotional state was successfully exploited by politicians. She was brainwashed and was launched for this divine mission to bring about peace. She would not listen to the impassioned pleas of her family members who begged her to come back home all this time. Hmmmm…. better late than never.

Now, as for wars they take place for good business and propaganda. Also, to justify the existence of billions of dollar worth weapons industry, war ministries, departments etc. As for excuses, use what you will. I just read Khaled Husseini’s book the Kite Runner. It is an entertaining quick read that also gives you basic information about the modern history of Afghanistan. It also mentions how barbaric and anti- women, anti- civil rights Taleban are. Bravo!!!

Many American readers Love that kind of stuff. And this book becomes the BEST SELLER. Fine. But no one likes to remember that American tax payers paid billions of dollars- albeit inadvertently- into creating, arming and funding Taleban about 30 odd years back. But of course, that makes people uncomfortable and besides, Taleban were not supposed to kill Americans, only to massacre Afghans and Russians. It didn’t work out exactly as planned. Bad Luck.

The truth is, as above paragraph asserts, this war stuff is a sinister business and there are people who truly benefit from both terrorism and war on terrorism. Both feed each other and will continue to exist. Apart from that it’s good entertainment for media empires and all. There is no substance to it if you dig a bit under the surface. And it’s not about which political party is running the government. For devil’s sake Bill Clinton used to start carpet bombing Bosnia and Herzegovina and pharmaceutical plants in Sudan whenever media focused on his sex life inside White House. Someone screws the wrong person and the miserable folks in the third world have to pay for it with their lives. This world is so tragic that it starts to sound incredibly funny.