bill clinton's Convenient Postmodern Pose: "G-word"shame presages "W-word" horror

The Atlantic Online ^ | 4.8.04 | Mia T

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THE CLINTONS' EASY DISREGARD FOR GENOCIDE AND TERRORISM
the role of clinton cowardice and self-aggrandizement

by Mia T, 4.9.04

 

(viewing movie requires Flash Player 6, available HERE)

owever questionable the reason for the clintons' easy disregard for the genocide that threatened Rwanda or the terrorism that threatens America, its correlate is clear; a clinton calculus rooted in cowardice and self-aggrandizement.

And both of these components are captured vividly in the movie clip above.

Notice in particular how each president reacts to a boy being crushed by the crowd: clinton reflexively moves to protect himself as he assails the overzealous swarm; the Ghanaian president, without hesitation and with increased risk to himself, lifts the little boy to safety.

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In the end,

if clinton's arrogant, ruthless, reckless nature is restored to him,

it seems the joke will be on all of us,

for it will be a victory for infinite victimhood and irresponsibility,

for seduction, for violence, for nihilism, for anarchy.

 

We will have set apart clinton as the hero

by making his victims less human than he;

we will have allowed clinton to carefully estrange us from his victims

so that we can enjoy the rapes and the beatings

as much as clinton himself does.