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May 09, 2005

Neo-Con Founder Speaks on the Oil for Blood Program

Neo-con founding father and pseudo-libertarian William F. Buckley bemoans the hard choices involved in the Bush regime’s “Oil for Blood” Crusade in Iraq.

“There are two burdens in America,” says WFB “one of them ascribable to our conscience. We can't "desert" those who enlisted in our proclaimed cause. We did exactly that when we deserted Vietnam, but we are unlikely to do it again in the Near East, because too many people are looking directly on and would understandably react against U.S. nonchalance with rage and contempt.”

First, note Buckley’s use of the imperial “we” as in “all of us collectively” which of course is laugh-out-loud funny. As if WFB’s social class are sacrificing any damn thing at all for this war.

Secondly, “we” (that usage again!) cannot renege on “our” commitment by deserting those “who enlisted in our cause”. WTF Mr. Buckley? I made no commitment to spend money, shed blood, or anything else on behalf of creating a new and improved Iraqi state.

Bush and his regime do not speak for me and have no moral right to commit my money, blood, or anything or anyone else’s on its behalf either.

The fact that WFB is so willing to say these things and make statements of this kind show that at heart his principle loyalty is to such bourgeois concepts of false consciousness as states, and the Divine Right of his socio-economic class (as in “we of the ruling elite” will commit your ass and money) to consider other people’s lives and property theirs to promise others.

Mr. Buckley’s real commitment to or even understanding of what liberty actually means is now revealed for the wrong-headed notion it is.

Posted by Ali Massoud at May 9, 2005 01:27 PM

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