The buzz in Washington today was of course the General Stanley McChrystal article that appeared in the Rolling Stone this past week. After reading the fucker today, I have come to several conclusions:
1.) While the Rolling Stone does more interesting reporting on politics than they do on music, their writers tend to rely on gotcha journalism over intelligent reporting and they use childish adjectives to (I assume) make themselves sound hip.
2.) It seems General McChrystal’s staff, much like the musicians that normally populate the Stone’s pages, got hammered with the writer during the fucking interview and became a bit loose lipped.
3.) This self-induced quagmire that we’ve found ourselves in Afghanistan appears as equally fucked as our current situation at home.
4.) Jann Wenner remains creatively bankrupt. (This is not actually related to the article, I just think he’s a pussy whose magazine has not been relevant for years and I thought I’d throw that in there).
I say all of this having (to the dismay of many of my followers) supported President Obama’s decision for the troop increase in Afghanistan. I maintain that it’s been the only real promise he’s kept from his campaign.
What I think is important to take out of the Rolling Stone article is not the drama it will cause to unfold tomorrow (as the mainstream media runs with the story of McChrystal’s visit to the White House to be reprimanded for his comments), but, instead, this concept that I have continued to put forth that we must become more conscious of the fact that we are a people controlled by those in power. And, unless we are willing to stand up and fight, we will continue to be mired in bullshit much like our current position in Afghanistan.
Look at it this way:
- As our soldiers are fighting this war on the ground, their superiors are getting drunk with Rolling Stone journalists and disparaging every colleague and White House official who questions their decision making.
- As the oil spill continues to gush in the Gulf and good people are volunteering their weekends with their children to initiate the cleanup effort, the CEO of BP is attending a yacht race with his son.
- As the Obama White House continues to blame the failed attitudes of the previous administration that let us into much of our current mess, the president spends a leisurely fucking day at the golf course with his VP.
Does that put my political vision into perspective a bit better?
I never said any of this shit was going to be easy, but it’s most important to put ourselves in a shared mindset before we achieve the first steps towards revolution.
So, fuck golf. And, once again, fuck Jann Wenner (whose revolution died decades ago).
- Freemont Barrington
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