Metamorphosis, but Not Kafka's

In the slow but steady metamorphosis of Barack Obama into that cockroach George Bush, progress has been made in the last few days. In Afghanistan, "NATO" helicopters (read, American) murdered two civilians, one a child, for having been too close to a vehicle they were targeting because "informants" reported that it contained a "suspected" Taliban leader. So much for guilty until convicted. In Libya, the undeclared war goes on, and a "senior White House official" says one reason for U.S. involvement is because it is in the "critical national security interests" of the U.S. One wonders if any disorderly act anywhere in the world would be outside these "critical" interests, if Obama needed to use a few hundred million dollars worth of Cruise missiles to prove his manhood, while veterans lived under bridges and cities laid off half their work force in a relentless war on what is left of the middle class.