I suppose in the political climate of today, it's just impossible for a president to say no to military intervention in Libya. Michael Walzer, our nation's leading political theorist and social critic (in my view) makes the case against intervention here. Meanwhile, the new headlines, for the new crisis goes up, and once again billions will fly out of our Defense Department while we cut the budgets for the poor and stand silently when many states attack the collective bargaining rights of public workers.
Everything, I mean everything, in both parties is always about the next election, and meanwhile, those who try to govern or to address our dire domestic need struggle away as they are dragged before House investigating committees.
Our politics are not pretty to watch, especially when you grasp that the endless spectacle of the news is literally engineered to assure massive inattention to what our true long term interests and needs are. Spectacle is fun; social criticism and sober, in-depth speaking truth to power is hard and results in phone calls to the front office from irate corporate leaders who are the moneybags of our endless campaigns of inattention.
