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| Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow |
Choux |
10/30/05 |
More and more, Bush looks like a man who has reached the point of no return. Watching his robotic speech on Iraq this week, you got the sense his heart is no longer really in it. He seems defeated. Resigned. Running on empty.
It got me thinking of the way this happens in every great tragedy -- Greek or Shakespearean. The moment arrives when we know that all is lost. For some reason, I keep thinking of Macbeth.
Macbeth's fatal deed -- from which there was no return -- was, of course, killing King Duncan ("Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had lived a blessed time"). Bush's fatal deed was invading Iraq. It led directly to Plamegate -- an attempt to cover up the lies and deceptions used to sell an unnecessary war to the American people. It derailed the war on terror, increased anti-American feeling around the world, contributed to the soaring budget deficit, made us less safe here at home, and set the table for the disastrous mishandling of Hurricane Katrina.
In the Scottish play, Shakespeare perfectly captures the infinite weariness that sets in when you've reached the end of the road:
"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time; and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death."
Can you think of a better summation of the position Bush now finds himself in? There will be no legacy of endless Republican power. No grand remaking of the Middle East. No privatization of, well, everything. No shrinking the government. No superseding his father.-Ariana Huffington
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