Saturday, February 01, 2003

How cynical have we all become?

Waking up this morning to the news of the breakup and destruction of the space shuttle over Texas, one of my first thoughts was:

They’ll find some way to suggest that there was some sort of connection to terrorists. 

By they, I mean of course the war parties like the Bushies, Fox TV, Rush, et al.  That one of the astronauts was an Israeli may be used in that manner by some.  Perhaps the ultra-Orthodox findamentalists will find it significant that Colonel Ramon was “working” on Shabbat during the landing.

For the moment, I’m chiding myself for my cynicism.  We’ll soon see whether that cynicism needs to be transferred elsewhere.

I hope I’m wrong about this.