Pat Tillman was murdered?
If it's the case -- and hell, we're talking about the Bush administration here! -- then that can only mean the short, exciting life of the United States is almost at an end. Because it is become insane. And its leaders are amoral. And its actions are erratic. And its last days will be spent cringing angrily, clinging to souvenirs of victories past.
It is Cody Jarrett and Lonesome Rhodes, laughing, shrieking its delusions and bunging oil soaked rags into the mouths of anyone who has a crumb of humanity left and who rages to tell the truth of things.
The apparent cover-up of the death of Pat Tillman is the ultimate White House indiscretion. So evil, so febrile and macabre it even trumps the brazenly unjust war itself. Because it smacks of an obsessive attention to detail that would make Eichmann smile, his crow's feet crinkling at the thought that wickedness never really dies -- but heroism does. Determined to at least be good at something in his life, George Bush has transcended the reasonable-by-comparison injustices of previous presidencies and made them epically despicable rather than just banally so. If he had become commissioner of baseball instead of Corruptor in Chief, we'd have Nickel Steroid Day and Kill the Umpire During the Seventh Inning Stretch! Pine Tar Dogs! No Shortstop Left Behind!
The inconceivably labyrinthine case of Pat Tillman is just another example of the sociopathic nature of the people running this country. And a madman who's tasted blood will make sure he tastes it in his dying moment without care as to whose it is or how he's obtained it. Surely even those that pull Bush's strings should take note that their latest boy's mayhem may even fuck up everything they've built...and that's saying something.
There are madmen in the cockpit once again. What will we do about it?
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