Bag's Rants

When you wear a white hat things are different.

It seems that Blair is getting a grilling from the Commons liaison committee where he is accused of being a Dictator and of being weak at the same time. Mmmmm. Read more here.

Anyway I just had a vision of Blair saying he was no dictator then I thought of the many others who had undoubtedly said the same thing. Saddam, Stalin, Amin, Mugabe, Kim Jong-il and Hitler as starters, the list must be endless. Now it made me think that nobody seriously put Blair in with these guys, yet anyway. Why is that? Is it because for decades we have put ourselves out as wearing the white hat. We are seen, to ourselves, as being the good guys and everything we do is righteous and is for the greater good.

This is of why we are seen as so hypocritical to the rest of the world. We insist that the rest of the world follows the NPT to our interpretation but we continue to upgrade our nuclear weapon systems for a world that no longer need really needs them. We stop DDT where it could do the most good and force thousands to die needlessly while polluting the world ourselves and all to save profits from being reduced. We imprison and execute people without due process whilst objecting to tin pot dictators doing the same. This list goes on as well. Is it because they can't object as violently as we can or they are perceived as wearing black hats? If the world was the UK we would put an ASBO on ourselves to stop bullying.

In this world we live in is there still anyone with a pure white hat? Up until Bush and Blair came in I would have said the US, Canada, Oz and the UK seemed to be clearly white hat. Now it appears that fear has gotten to them all. I'm hoping that the people are still the same and when the smoke clears, as it will eventually, and our fear dissipates, for whatever reason, we can step up to the mark and continue where we left off a decade ago. Unfortunately unless there are changes, in both sides, I don't see that happening without lots more bloodshed. The only question is if the black hats can mount another attack on the US similar to 911 or will they go for easier targets such as the UK or the real easy ones in the middle east. The US and it could very well be gloves off. Which would have it's advantages. Others, including the UK, and it would just go on and on.

Unfortunately, I tend to be a planner. So I've of the viewpoint we should make plans for a peaceful solution with a fallback of extermination. We could wear a black hat for a while and blame it on a few politicians while we resolve the short term issues. Then back to a white hat and a new lot of politicians while we resolve the long term issues.

posted by Bag @ 10:18 am