I had a bad dream last night, I couldn't even get back to sleep. It's a dream that actually happened though, because I dreamed about the Iraq war starting. Then I got all freaked out about the troops that would be going over there, and I started hoping again that maybe through my protests and what not I could influence law makers to have it not happen, and I was imagining all of the horrible stuff that was going to go down as soon as the bombs were flying or whatever, only to wake up a year or so later and it already happened.
My beef with this war is that it is kind of like using a shotgun to swat mosquitos. sure if you know there are alot of mosquitos some where, sure you can shoot the gun at them, and yeah those that you hit will definitely not bite you. But you did not kill the all of them, you certainly didn't teach any of those mosquitos a lesson, because they are still out for the same blood that they would have been. I don't know, I was used to the Steven Seagall movie, Passenger 57, Die Hard Trilogy-grade of terrorist that deep down really want money, or power, or 'the microfiche' but these people seem just to hate America. I know that we should not negotiate with terrorist but some thought should be put toward using our foreign policy to have a better world image if we have terrorist just interested in killing us. No material gain, no 'microfiche', just killing. Jealousy is one thing, I understand if somebody wants to trip us on the playground, but if someone wants to bring in a gun and shoot us something is wrong. Instead we seem focused on using our foreign policy to intimidate more people, which seems to lead to more people being mad at us, which will probably lead to more problems.
Oh well, guess I better get some coffee.
3 comments:
and what should this 'image' be? one where we back away and say sorry? that doesn't work with dogs, and i sense it wouldn't work, here, either.
we beat communism, starting small. it took vietnam.
this will take something worse than iraq. we should be prepared and ready and resolute.
I figured that would get a comment out of you, what is the blog that you and rob are on?
...also, Whatever benefits this war, and our two new colonies or territories, or democracies (Iraq and Afghanistan), have given us, do they prevent, or even address, the repeat of an event like 9/11? Are our enemies Islamic Terrorism? Or just any Islam government that doesn't like America? Is it the small groups of people with the capabilities to inflict large damage to Americans across the world that we are after? or the Islamic countries whose climates allow such groups to germinate and persist? If we pursue the latter, does that eliminate the former, or exacerbate the problem these groups pose?
What have the 'homeland security' changes really done to prevent someone from filling a truck with C4 and driving next to a baseball stadium? Isn't that the damage we should be worried about, not whether or not Al-Sadr is going to give up some temple? Even though he is doing acts of 'terrorism' which seem very much an attempt at a militant coup for power in Iraq, is he fooling anyone into thinking all the terrorists have focused their attention to Iraq? I mean if they had been looking at U.S. for 10 years since the first WTC bombing, can we think they got confused about where the U.S. is in the past 18 months?
And finally, the 'image' of U.S. as the country that keeps the people who sell oil in power, and those who pump the oil living in poverty? Maybe the image of the U.S. who will deny Aids funding, aiding many muslims in Africa, to benefit big drug companies? The America whose citizens live so easy that we are suffering from the effects of TOO MUCH FOOD? Or how bout just the U.S. that won't put Sadaam out for his human rights claims 8 years ago because H.W. wanted to deal with a 'known devil' but will use the same clause to justify the war whose original goal wasn't even found? sorry if this is long...having trouble sleeping again...
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