Dr. Forbush Thinks

What is the strongest force in nature?

Any physicist can tell you that the strong nuclear force is that strongest force in nature. And, it must mediate the interaction between Republicans and their money. Republicans are afraid of just about everything. They tell us the dangers of terrorism and Saddam Hussein’s ability to create nuclear weapons. Or, is it Iran now? But, the thing that Republicans seem to fear more than anything else is the possibility that they may be separated from their money.

Think about the Iraq War for instance. They want to wage war, but they don’t want to pay for it. They would rather borrow the money and have their children pay it back with interest. They believe that scaring the Jesus out of the Muslims by using huge weapons of mass destruction will keep them safe. But, they don’t want to spend their own money to pay for these destructive weapons. They feel that if they kill enough radical extremists, then the radical extremists will become just as afraid as they are of losing their money. If the terrorists become frightened enough, then the terrorists will leave us alone and do what ever it is that fearful terrorists do.

Not only that, but Republicans want a cheap war. They don’t want the deluxe model, because they know that if the Republicans loose control of government, then they might actually have to pay back the debt generated from this aggression. It would surprise me if the next generation were to wise up, retain control of government and punish the current Republicans in charge by taking away their Social Security checks. But, the problem is that this attack on the Iraq War generation would punish the wrong people. The truly evil people are the Republicans who supported George W Bush and never questioned him at any step along the way. What good is a government that has checks and balances and never uses them?

Somehow we have allowed the argument to get so convoluted that the people who actually care about the well being of our soldiers have become the bad guys.

Let’s think about this crazy Republican reasoning and see if we can find the flaw.

The Republicans became fearful of loosing their money when the financial markets in New York City were attacked on 9/11/2001 by radical extremists. Fear of anyone who might qualify as a potential radical extremists fueled hatred of Arabs, Muslims, and many people who have “strange” sounding names or accents. Even though all evidence tells us that such a small number of people are actually terrorists or extremists that fear is creating a large number of people who are unfairly being discriminated against. But fear is such a strong force that it allows the discrimination to continue. And when the Republicans that have their assets recorded on computer disks that could be targeted their fear becomes even more irrational.

But, crying about the potential loss of money isn’t very manly, so the Republicans use the “horror” of the 3000 killed on 9/11/2001 as an excuse for taking such extreme action as attacking and killing over 100,000 Iraqis and more than 3000 US soldiers. They want thousands of US troops to create a Democracy in the Middle East, to create a wealthy class in the Middle East that shares the same fear of loss of money that they have. Perhaps if the wealthy in a Democracy in the Middle East will act in self interest then they will fight to keep their money for the Americans. At least, that seems to be the complex idea behind their actions.

And, of course they hide their fear of financial loss behind the support of our troops that they sent into harms way. Their logic seems to be, send troops to overthrow a country to create a Democracy to protect their money. Then proclaim the support for our troops as a patriotism that shouldn’t be questioned, because questioning the deployment will put our troops in harms way, because they might not feel so patriotic if they knew that the whole reason for their suffering had to do with protecting the wealth of those who were afraid of losing their personal wealth.

And, this shameless act of greed and fear is protected from criticism by this clever proposal that they actually care about our troops. But, this curtain seems to have finally been tossed aside with the revelation that Republicans don’t really want to pay for care needed by our wounded troops. They don’t want to treat our troops who have sacrificed body parts with the respect that they deserve. Of course they must buckle to political pressure when the truth comes out. And the political pressure will cause the cost of this war to go up. Of course the Republicans will borrow more money to pay for this, even though they would rather not. They were simply embarrassed into this. It is like when someone is embarrassed into contributing to the church collection by a preacher who puts the names and amounts of contributions on the church wall.

The Republicans would rather not pay any more than they need to, but when they are called on the carpet, they will pay the least amount than they can get away with. And, if they can they will do their best to blame someone else for the problem. Chances are that our military hospitals are given a budget and the military hospitals do the best that they can with the money that they have. Why not blame the guy who is spending the money, rather than the people who apportion the money to the veterans? Just remember, the Republicans are motivated by the fear of losing their money, and nothing else.







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