comment a la Poobah

A comment of mine from a post of Pooby's, so I thought I'd put here for the record:

...the Hague wont do anything [about America's war crimes] unless America becomes considerably weaker than it is right now. We’re bigger than the cops, and better armed (literally and metaphorically), so they’re going to let us alone unless we start really misbehaving; simple fact, we have to police ourselves because we’re a gorilla in a room full of chimps, and the only thing keeping us from eating the chimps is decency and the fact that there are a lot of them. I suspect Bush et al knew this, and since they have no common decency, they went ahead and did whatever they felt like doing.
As for policing ourselves, while the gorilla in the room analogy works for world community, within the country we’re more like the cast of the movie “A Bug’s Life”. We, the ants, could overwhelm the grasshoppers who are robbing us blind, but we dont seem to get that. So they keep us distracted and make irrelevant the few voices that try to alert us to things, and so continue to devour the fruits of our sacrifice.

As for Pelosi, she’s been on my shit list since she declared impeachment “off the table”. That, more than anything, signalled to me a deep involvement on her part and other Democrats in any impeachable offenses that the BushCorp may have engaged in, because I could think of no other reason to avoid such an easy political victory.
The rational that they were sparing the nation some sort of divisive spectacle is ridiculous. A thorough, unflinching and timely investigation would have united all but the Truest Believers, with the added advantage that justice would have been served. Instead, we are witness to the slow strangling of democracy, the lack of metaphorical oxygen to America’s brain, and the high probability that the Founder’s Great Experiment will end in failure.