William Rivers Pitt Gets if Right

I've searched for a column or essay that gets it right. I found it. Please read it here.

What hasn't yet happened is moving preaching to the choir to a confrontation, a facing down of McCain/Palin/Rove, and exposing their tactics for what they are; sliming, swift boating, character assassinating of decent people, for the personal goal of capturing and occupying the ultimate position of power, president of the United States.

Honesty and Integrity should be essential qualifications for the office of President of the United States. A poll of US citizens is likely to confirm those values.

The neocons have forsaken their allegiance to the values of our Republic, if they ever embraced them, in favor of their commitment and allegiance to whatever works for them in pursuit of money and power.

In our times these are the people of the elected mafia, my label for Cheney/Bush. They will stop at nothing to get their way.

They are neither Americans nor Patriots first, though they cloak and wrap themselves in the American flag.

They have no allegiance to anything except their commitment to raking in huge amounts of money, which can be made by fanning the flames of ethnic hatred anywhere they can find it on earth, so that the military/industrial establishment, about which General of the Army, and President Dwight David Eisenhower warned us, can make their billions by convincing the public to go along with Congress in approving huge expenditures on research, development and manufacture of arms, as a defense against threats from others, sometimes real, but often hyped.

These are people who understand that there is more money to be made in war than in peace.

In WW II, we had a War Department which defended us. Now we have a Defense Department which starts wars.

Hello?

It is not new to our time. These are just today's examples of people
who profit from wars, by selling arms to both sides, as their predecessors
did in our own Civil War.

Should you be curious enough to pursue this I recommend a historical novel by Taylor Caldwell, The Captains and the Kings, published in the 1970's.

Leanderthal, Lighthouse Keeper