Every Junkie's Like a Setting Sun: Enabling the President's Addiction

by Steven Laffoley
"Addiction," my dictionary tells me, is "the condition of being habitually or compulsively occupied with, or involved in, something." Watching George W. Bush, almost giddy and sometimes nervous with excitement, talk about being a "War President," I can't help but wondering: is this president a junkie?
Now, don't get me wrong. I don't mean to say that this president is a drug addict, although it is true that this president inhaled or.um.snorted.
And I don't mean to say that this president is an alcoholic, although it is true that, as a grown man, this president stood on the front yard of his family's home, and after drinking one too many cans of.um.courage, he challenged his dad, George Sr., to come outside and settle their differences like men, "mano-e-mano."
No, what I mean to say is that this president is.well. a war addict.
Sure, I know other presidents have fought wars - Lincoln fought the Civil War; Franklin Delano Roosevelt fought World War II; Woodrow Wilson fought World War I; Truman had Korea; Johnson and Nixon had Vietnam; and even William McKinley had the Spanish-American War - but not one of them seemed to enjoy fighting a war the way this president seems to enjoy fighting in Iraq.
Maybe this is one way to explain this Presidents refusal to listen to us about this war and maybe it explains why war in Iran is so imminent? Of course it is hard to analyze insane thinking by using logic!

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