Splitting Apart Splitting Apart

The bombing of Baghdad has begun. Fire to fight fire; stupidity, stupidity. Neither leader easy to believe, each says he works only for peace, but his is peace at any cost, the peace of his supremacy, by force if necessary, dividing the cynical from the gullible, both wanting to believe makes either love or war. Hobesean presidents are naturally in a state of war with self-fulfilling philosophies of destruction, and the lives they lead are poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Splitting Apart