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This occurs to me a day after writing the other post, though I'm posting them both on the same day:
I mentioned before how, when dealing with complex issues, simple unambiguous statements and platitudes are simply not sufficient to gain an understanding, let alone a glimpse into the solution to, a problem. This is due to the fact that simple, single words cannot wrap themselves sufficiently around complex issues. This is part (a small part of a large whole) of the reason why I dislike George W. Bush, and his style of politics, so much. He tries to make issues that are unfathomably complex seem simple, by creating a world where his three words that he says about any particular issue are all there is to know about that issue. This is not the way I would go about solving anything more complicated than a simple algebra problem; it's not the way I would hold a relationship, and it's not the way I think the ruler of the United Three Countries of America should run them. Words like "terrorist" and "crusade" are so incredibly loaded and ambiguous that we should worry when they come out of the mouths of people in power.
Disheartening, that a majority of Americans are so fearful that they'll allow their lives to be run by such unproductive ambiguity. It's so much easier to tear things down than to build them up, and I'm sad right now, as I'm sure much of you (who've been able to wade this far into my dribble) are, that America is going to have to see so many more things go wrong before they can start to go right (left?) again.