As
Obama Relieves McChrystal Over Critical Remarks and Names Petraeus as Replacement, I find myself thinking about what will happen if
Obama does not withdraw our war zone troops by July of 2011 as promised. Does it even matter any more? I mean, we all seem to have relinquished control to the point that we accept no responsibility for our elected leaders' actions once we vote them in.
Are we responsible? Back in February I posted an essay by Michael Sandstrom (originally written in 2006), titled
Boxing, Wrestling, and the American Dream, which attempts to unravel the smoke and mirrors of the entertainment complex that has become America (with references to Roland Barthes). It argues that after taking a backseat to the fake theatrics of of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), boxing was trying to make a comeback, and goes on to posit that perhaps the reemerging yearning for boxing (and boxing movies) along with the sudden dismissal of the smoke and mirrors of the WWE, was directly related to the hope and desire to relinquish the "no holds barred" attitude of the Bush Administration.
Yet, as
I stated back in February...
