Why many people don't like politics...

Well, this is a good reason to despise certain election year politics. Apparently the monkey campaign is pressuring the pakistani gov't to deliver bin laden and his deputies just in time for the democratic convention. A white house aide is even said to have specified that it would be key to announce the "capture or killing" of these figures on the 26th, 27th, and 28th of July; smack dab in the middle of the democratic primaries.


Sigh...


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Now there is pressure for these things to happen? Hasn't the capture of bin laden been the primary fundamental basis for everything this administration has done in regards to foreign policy for the last four years? I don't think I could possibly understand the reasoning behind this as anything other than saying one thing and doing another. I know that the government can't disclose certain things for security reasons, but to prop someone up as a dangerous enemy to the human race for four years, and just now step up efforts to catch them seems like a glaring contradiction; something of which these people seem all to familiar with.



So if this happens, which it probably won't, but if it does, what are the implications? Most of the news coverage that would have been devoted to the democratic primaries will be shifted to the completion of the long awaited objective which was, after all, the fundamental basis for the last few messy years... could the media avoid it? Could the person that's been reading the paper every day for some time avoid it? I can see it now... "we got him", or "Caught", on the front page of every local and nationwide newspaper in the country.


Sigh...


So maybe it's the fact that politics raises questions about things that aren't particularly "happy", or fun to talk about. By my standard, this is an example of the dark side of politics, and a large part of why many people just want to stay out of it.
More on this at thismodernworld.


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