In the Absence of Reason

By Charles Sullivan

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17896.htm

Two excerpts:

"I offered to cite the evidence and even provide source materials for them to peruse. Neither of them was willing to examine the evidence. Neither would hear any of it. Both men were visibly agitated at the thought that such evidence may actually exist, and that it could be so easily produced. They were afraid to confront the facts, or to be confronted by them. Their entire belief system was at risk.

The very idea that the United States government might be complicit in the death of thousands of its own citizens as a pretext for war is still preposterous to most U.S. citizens, despite the historical record that is suppressed in the mainstream, but widely available from other sources. The sound of so many minds slamming shut like a steel prison door is deafening."

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"The death of civilians means nothing to a government that routinely murders civilians around the world, and sends its own to kill and be killed for imperialistic purposes. The historical record speaks for itself. Pax America is an old phenomenon, not one that is peculiar to George Bush and Dick Cheney. It is a phenomenon that is deeply rooted in plutocracy, corporatism, racism, and capitalism—a fact that too many U.S. citizens are terrified to face.

It is tragically sad that so few U.S. citizens are even willing to confront the evidence and demand accountability. 9/11 and subsequent events were made possible by a systemic absence of reason in our culture. We behave as if ignorance somehow protects us from reality. It does not. Eventually, darkness must give way to the light.

Hiding our collective heads in the sand out of fear can hardly be considered an act of courage or enlightenment. Indeed, it is moral cowardice of the worst kind.

What we don’t know, and what we refuse to know, does us, and the world, considerable harm. Reality has a way of intruding upon our preconceived ideas. Hiding in fear does not make evil go away; it assures its continuation."