Is There A Cure For The Bush Cancer?

Question

The majority of the people are toiling under the universal, age old illusion that the moral abyss of American politics can be reformed and made to serve the people as well as the public interest. According to this line of reasoning, the malignancy is principally the result of a few bad apples mixed with the good. If they are correct, then removing the bad apples will affect a cure. Yet that has never been the case and it is not the case now. Otherwise, we would not be where we are today. Consider, for example, that America’s Middle East policy has remained essentially the same as it is today through eleven presidencies, consistently yielding the same results.

Answer 1

sorry to tell you that , but cancer reaching that stage of deterioration can not be cured, and the patient is bound to die.

Answer 2

Like all cancers the best way to deal with them is to cut them off the offending area/organ. I suspect we will be rid of this individual before his term is up. Come November when we finally rid ourselves of the NEOCON traitors in both houses, the way will be clear for impeachment hearings and we can finally start learning the truth. I really want to be alive to see the end of Bush and his corrupt administration.

I so agree with your analysis of our ME policy. In the absence of a third power source, I see no change over the horizon. It must also be true that we are not privy to all that happens in the background, and I cannot accept that it is just because the UN, in concordance with USA and UK, created Israel why our policies are so evidently biased and unfair. Clinton, if you accept that he was a good President for the US followed the policy to the letter. He at least tempered the inequalities with diplomacy and discussion. His wife, were she to be successful, has already demonstrated that she has no reason to deviate from the policy so I fear we are in for a bumpy ride as things unravell over the next few years.

Answer 3

Guess I'm a pessimist because I think the "malignancy" is endemic to the system. Once elected, politicians' main concern is staying in office. So they accept campaign contributions from big corporations or interest groups (oil, pharma, etc.) and then are indebted to them. Essentially their votes have been bought and paid for. That's why seniors got royally screwed on Medicare legislation.

Re: your example of Mideast policy: remember that we are committed to supporting Israel as the one democracy to protect our oil interests. However, when it comes to Iraq we have Wolfewitz to thank for this whole charlie foxtrot. He outlined his Iraq plan while still in grad school, refined it over time, and in Bush he finally found a puppet whose strings he could pull to put it into effect. I'm no conspiracy theorist - the info is all on line. Google his bio - you'll find the step-by-step process, the point at which Cheney got involved, the whole ugly story. And your grandchildren will still be paying the price for this so-called war on terror.

Answer 4

I "toil" under the notion that your analogy to a cancer was poorly thought out/poorly explained and DEFINITELY not proven.

And actually, nobody "toils" under the notion that the moral abyss can be reformed to "serve the people." In fact our system is set up on the ideal that one cannot rule without being tempted to corruption, which is why we have checks and balances, etc.

Read the federalist Papers and you'll see what I'm talking about, either that or go back to elementary school, I think they teach the constitution in context around 5th grade.

Answer 5

Ah, let's go by your logic. Here we have the world, the majority is good, the bad apple being the middle east. Hence bad apple = middle east
Then we subtract the middle east from the world and we have:
world - middle east = PEACE

Maybe the middle east policies are off, I mean, since more than half the world thinks that way. You'd think they change and come to the realization that they are all crazy zealots.

Answer 6

The Libertarian Party.

Answer 7

Two cancers, Gore and Kerry, have already been removed.
However, the Clinton Cancer is still a threat to the nation.

Answer 8

yea,leave the country and go to a country with no RIGHTS, and you will want Pres. Bush back.oh yea ,I forgot Bill Clinton is your boy,a lire,cheater and I did not have sex with that woman President

Answer 9

YES THE SYMPTOMS ARE RIGHT HERE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLG9TmRt0NM

Answer 10

The cause of malignancy may be far deeper and subtler than the physical pathology of good and bad seperation. As seen in many cases of malignancy physical methods of treatment does not totally eradicte the predisposition to recurrance unless the personality is positively transformed to eshew all negative aspects. Can the huge industry and big business of developed nations survive and provide full time employment to their population unless there is appreciation and desire to procure and use their products in global markets? But Mother Nature maintains harmony and balance compatible to the resources of the small planet Earth but not the infinite desires potentially vested in human nature. If sale of platforms and weapons of war to destitute people causing perpetual misery and poverty in the third world countries can be justified to maintain the standards of living in the developed ones remember what Shakespeare said in a poem-"Blow thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind..." Are we, inspite of all scientific progress, able to gain control over natural calamities or environmental polution causing worldwide destruction and death with no prejudiced sympathies to either type nations? A proverb in sanskrit says--Kamaturanam na bhayam na lajja--meaning that a man beset himself with a strong desire has no fear nor a sense of shame. To cite two from recent history--the German Kaiser Wilhelm-2 who admired the glory and grandeur of his grand mother's empire(Queen Victoria of England) strongly wished to do the same developing navy and establishing global colonies under the aegis of modern German industry and military establishment but miscalculating her competency and experience in the management of colonial establishment. When WW1 broke out in Europe he squashed the Anglo-German peace treaty as a piece of waste paper when Britain declared war on his Reich reposing faith in German might. The out come was a recorded history but the lessons learnt by either the victors or the vanquished is the greatest human folly. Although the futility and horrors of modern warfare were vividly narrated by a German soldier ("All Quite in the Western Front" by E.M.Remarque) in a book during post war years the establishment of League of Nations and its effectiveness in resolving international disputes were weighed heavily down by the high and mighty European Ladership. Can we say that unbridled desires and tyrannical leadership is also a sort of mental cancer? Then came Hitler who made no bones of his intentions and fooled every body by his eloquent herangues extemporising and deluding both the self revelling vain gloried victors as well as the humiliated and revengeful Germans. Following the fate of Munich Paper Pact ensued the horrors and holocaust of WW-2 and once again resulting in human wisdom winning ground in a charter of its rights(only) in the establishment of U.N. but with no effective check over willful misuse. This answer may appear as side tracking the concerned subject but not much can be said either about the American middle east policy or her entanglement in global issues unless the spirit of the U.N is upheld by all member nations and give up all desires and methods of exploitation in pursuit of material wealth. All sacred scriptures speak of how desire for material wealth with the exercise of might obscures true human wisdom and humility imbibing contempt and ruthlessnes in the minds of its seekers licencing themseleves in acts justifying their means to achieve the ends of their cherished ideals. The use of unconventional chlorine gas during ww-1 and total blitzwarfare during ww-2 did not provide any advantage to the Germans but destruction with the same licenced methods by the allies. It is an irrevocable universal law wheather under the aegis of U.N or unknown that 'the way we intend and perform that way only we get the returns'. Wheather the innocent and uncommitted common public is deluded by the justified majority vote of a larger democratic set up or the unilateral decisions of a dictatory despot its ultimate fate always hangs on to the true humility and wisdom of its leaders as well as understanding and cooperation at international level for a lasting benefit unto themselves and humanity in general.