Change Your Image
tendickjeff
Reviews
Battlestar Galactica: Occupation (2006)
AS an American...
I am an American and none of this is lost on me. I do believe that there are many people out there who believe we are the Cylons portrayed in this excellent bit of television science fiction and drama. Yet, again perhaps, like the Cylons, we Americans, like many other people in the world, are too complex to be catagorized in such a neat little pigeon hole of goose-stepping neo-Nazi fools with a narrowly focused agenda of death and destruction to anyone who doesn't do as we say. I reject that argument and submit that there are few people or nations in the world that haven't at least once in recent history fallen into the same trap of national arrogance.
I am not in favor of my nation's action in Iraq and have done what I can to oppose it from the months before it began and will continue to do so for as long as it takes. I do not see "The Islamic World" as some marching, straight-lined monolithic entity, any more than I see other peoples, cultures or religions as being to robotic.
Shame on us, perhaps, for some of the disagreeable things we do in the world, but shame on the world for thinking we Americans are ALL so shallow that we goose-step to the same drummer. Frankly, goose-step has never been the right step for me, and neither has it been for most of the people in this nation with whom I am familiar.
As for Cheney, Rove & Bush, none of whom I support or even like, Abraham Lincoln said that people such as them can fool all of us some of the time, but can never fool all of us all of the time. To quote another character from scifi, "The sleeper has awoken."