WHAT "TWO" IS?

06/23/2009

WHAT "TWO" IS?

The old adage says, that if you can add two and two and come up with a reasonably close answer, you are smart. So the question then must be what is "two"? Why so many have a problem adding up "two" and a "two" ? And why is the answer so darn difficult?

We want Obama to advise the Iranians about the elections but we forget, it was a mere eight years ago when we also had a disputed election in which an unpopular man apparently was declared the winner by our supreme leaders. The unpopular man started unnecessary wars and thumbed his nose at the world, so there.




















We forget that in our free country we cage the protesters, keep them away from cameras and the news media, oh come on, you are not ignorant now are you?

Apparently we don't see this as a double standard when our soldiers and police and undercover agents beat up, water hose, shove push and bomb with tear gas or shoot rubber bullets at the protesters who rally against globalization, GATT, and IMF, or G-8, 9, 10, 11, 20 meetings. And as I have mentioned our friendly governments who oppress their own people, like the Saudi's Egyptians, Sudanese and their ilk. We rail against North Koreans when the power is passed from father to son, but is not Hosni, our buddy our pal, doing the same?

What will happen when the seemingly endless stream of step brothers meets their end in Saudi Arabia and we have to prop up a younger thief that promises to be controlled by us most closely.

It is not that I do not wish freedom and democracy for my Iranian friends and brothers and sister, and their success in their struggles, It is the hypocrisy of the media and the US and European policies that I must question, "you have done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"

Joseph N. Welch, the Joseph McCarthy Hearings 1954

And then look at what just happened, Chris Brown was given probation by a judge for beating the tar out of his girl friend, and that is way less than what Micheal Vick got for beating up his dogs. So much for the respect of human life and dignity in the good ole US of A, may be we need to get our heads out, before we advise others as to what "two" is!

My hat is off to Neda Sultan for her sacrifice, my condolences to her family, where ever they are. I only wish that the people of the world would not just call out the Iranian regime but also the Saudi' s and the Egyptians and the Israelis, and Palestinians.