[GCFL-discuss] Waking up from a dream

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I hear that Ronald Reagan is no longer among us.

He was a president who brought all the skills and charm of the silver
screen to his tenure as president. He could stand at the gates of hell,
and convince nearly his entire audience that they were taking a leisurely
stroll through a pleasant summer morning in a Norman Rockwell painting.
No advocate of fiscal prudence ever ran our nation so deeply into debt,
on the theory that if we cut income while spending more, our money will
multiply like rabbits. The truly miraculous thing is, he sincerely
believed every word of it. That may be why he was so convincing. Ronald
Reagan had a knack for finding the most ruthless international gangsters
available, plying them with American taxpayer's money, providing them
with modern weapons, calling them freedom fighters, and giving them a
license to plunder, rape and kill. I remember on the evening news when he
plaintively lectured reporters that Osama bin Laden and his friends in
Afghanistan were "freedom fighters," thereby giving a new twist to an old
sophistry: George Bush's terrorist is Ronald Reagan's freedom fighter.

It would be nice to let the man have a decent, private burial, such as
any human being deserves, whatever their neighbors or more distant
acquaintances may think of them. The recapitulated fantasies of greatness
being bandied about in the media, about a man who 50 years from now will
be remembered alongside such national leaders as Millard Fillmore and
James Polk, are far from dignified. Some Christians believe that being
sincerely wrong is enough to condemn a man or woman to eternity in hell.
I prefer to believe that God gives credit for sincere good intentions. On
that hopeful note, I pray that God will have mercy on Ronald Reagan, as
God would hopefully have on any of us.

Siarlys


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