Things on their Heads

The arrogance of the Bush Administration is really remarkable, because of the lengths to which they will go to stand things on their head. Nevertheless even in the amazingly varied animal kingdom you will find very few organisms that move about, much less live, on their heads.

So they violate all tried and true principles of good diplomacy and ordinary common sense by telling people, "If you're not with me, you're against me."

Calling themselves combating terrorism, they make a shambles of another country whose citizens hadn't committed any terrorist acts against them.

Bristling with thousands of nuclear weapons of all kinds, and with a multitude of ways to deliver them, they constantly revile another country for wanting to have even the tiniest fraction of the same.

And now they're saying that using contraceptives is a form of abortion.

Don't they realize at all that such a statement is far less than a step away from saying that celibacy, which people on their side supposedly encourage to the high heavens, is also a form of abortion?

This has to mean that in their minds any activity that prevents conception is abortion, save for the periods when one is permitted to have sex though solely only for the purpose of having children, and most definitely not for pleasure or for demonstrating affection. They must not have found a way to get around that yet, at least not one that they can promote without being totally laughed away. But even then they surely look forward to a time when people will only be allowed to be fruitful and multiply by receiving permits, and only at a certain age, and preferably to be issued only to those of Anglo- and Germano-Saxon stock.