Conservatives have no affection for their children

Cindy Sheehan is so aggrieved by the senseless loss of her son that she is willing to pursue George Bush, the cause of the grief, relentlessly. She set up camp outside George W. Bush's vacation spot at great inconvenience to herself.

At another site in Crawford, Texas, a father has set up a similar site which he calls a "fort" in contrast to "Camp Casey" where Cindy Sheehan and her supporters have their temporary location. Camp, for those not familiar with the military is the name given to Marine sites. The Army calls its soldiers' military residences forts.

The father says he is proud that his son served in Iraq where he was killed. Conservatives are renoun for their heartlessness toward the misfortunes of others, but usually nature wires all her creatures to care for their young to the point that they often will die to protect them.

Conservative lack of affection for anything but property and profits seems to extend to their own offspring. The Texas father is not affected by the fact that his son died for a fraud, for the plutocrats' plunder, for nothing. Perhaps he finds consolation in the religious belief the he will be rewarded for his sacrifice.

The contrast between the two parents is revealing. It's as if two breeds of humans occupy the earth.

The U.S. stands no chance of becoming civilized as long as the heartless citizens wield so much power and influence on it.