Wake me up four years from now...

Just wake us up four years from now, not sure we want to see other four years of this. Or maybe not, don’t let us sleep, who knows what we will find when we will wake up.

Well, democracy is to accept the choices of the majority so let be it. But it does not make me confortable, though, the feeling of living in a country where the majority of the people (and this time is really the majority) agrees with the policies of a government that is using a tragedy like 9/11 as an excuse to go wrecking other countries around the world which have nothing to do with it. As a foreigner living in US, is frightening to think of other four years in which this country will proceed unilaterally on its own way, ignoring the most elementary rules of coexistence of the human society. How many more treaties will be broken in the next four years? How many more countries which never saw an al-Qaida terrorist before will be invaded? Does the american voters understand that they are just one part of the human family, and that they cannot prescind on what the rest of the world thinks?

I wish that I could just sleep for the next four years, as Ornitorinko and Sami propose to do, but that doesn’t seem a good idea, either. I can try to hide in Antartica, but global warming arrives there too... And I am not only worried about the world, I am also worried about US. I live here, and it’s here that the consequences of yesterday’s vote will be more felt. What will these people do, now that they have a real electoral mandate, a larger majority in Congress and Senate, and now that they will not care about maintaining that minimum balance to allow for their re-election?

I am frightened of the years to come, for this society has turned to the right in a scary way. Do we realize that Bush now will be probably able to appoint three new Supreme Court judges before the end of his new term? With three new ultra-conservative judges, even sentences like Roe vs. Wade (recognizing abortion as a constitutional right) can be overturned. Will we need a new civil right struggle all over again when these people will go home at last?

On a similar note... have you read the english transcript of the “electoral” speech of that lucid lunatic criminal of Bin Laden (the full transcript, not the abridged version published on CNN)? That is really scary stuff:

"[...] All that we have mentioned has made it easy for us to provoke and bait this administration. All that we have to do is to send two mujahidin to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al-Qaida, in order to make the generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic, and political losses without their achieving for it anything of note other than some benefits for their private companies.

This is in addition to our having experience in using guerrilla warfare and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical superpowers, as we, alongside the mujahidin, bled Russia for 10 years, until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat. [...]"

The Soviet Union was indeed bankrupted by the war in Afghanistan, and the US forces are indeed over-extended between Afghanistan and Iraq. Is this country really playing the hands of the terrorists?