The Simple People of America

The era of George W. Bush will be an interesting period for history. The master villain he created will emerge as a martyr and hero for the billion Muslims of the world. Bush will become a joke, an object of shame, an adjective for incompetence, ignorance, heartlessness and treachery. He will be cited as the epitome of what is endemic, evil and wrong with capitalism, Christianity, unbridled greed and gluttony. He likely will be the symbol of 21st Century decay and human pathology.

Osama Bin Laden, on the other hand, will become the David that took on the snarling, dimwitted Goliath, crippled it and ultimately caused it to collapse into a writhing heap of bloated decay.

The simple people will be forgotten as the nonentity that they were. They never rose above the primitive animal herd level. They accepted without question, and often with enthusiasm, slavery, homocide, genocide, fratricide, eugenics, torture and mass incarceration. Genetically, they were incapable, like their British ancestors, of developing a conscience. They never could distinguish right from wrong, civilization from savagery or maturity from immaturity. If there is a heaven, none of them will be there.