We Need A National Funeral

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We Need A National Funeral
Nov 27, 2004
by Steven Backus

We need a national funeral. We need our leaders to assemble at some grave place and collectively grieve and mourn for the deaths America has suffered and caused to suffer. We need a national ritual that acknowledges the catastrophic violence we’ve mounted in the Middle East and especially in Iraq. Without this healing ritual, we can never go forward with integrity and hope, but only with divisive rage and our own weapons of mass destruction in tow. ...read more at http://www.jihadunspun.com/intheatre_internal.php?article=100705&list=/home.php&

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Look at what we are being asked to do: one writer suggests “plowing ahead” with the democratic/progressive agenda. Another says we’ve only begun to fight. Now the hard work has begun. Others say we need more support; we need an alternative future. Still others declare that the Democratic party needs new vision and must maintain its opposition to the ruling elite. And finally, covers of magazines, headlines of newspapers, television sound bites and even concession speeches urge us to “unite.”

However, the time of delusion is over.

The millions of words spun over the issues, the hundreds of thousands of protests waged on lawns, in churches, at community centers and in front of the city council buildings across the nation were for nothing. The gatherings in basements and living rooms to figure out how to react and transform this country, they were useless. The unbelievable cyber-talk, the incredible volume of forum-chat, the newspaper editorials, the horrific stories of dead soldiers and dead Iraqis, the cartoons on major papers and in the backs of underground journals, the bumper stickers and the yard signs: All meaningless.

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If our president and our media will not let us see what is happening and will not provide us with this ritual, how can we go forward, like all our progressive friends, our candidates on the left and our headlines proclaim? How can we come together when we haven’t even begun the grieving process and the ritual which acknowledges the suffering we have caused?