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i'm starting to tune into current events again. if that isn't blatantly obvious by all the newspapers i've got listed over there --->.. no, that isn't for any readers enjoyment, its for me. if any readers of my ramblings happen to go to any of those news services thats great.. but the purpose of all my links on this site is a mini-portal for me. what you see listed on the right of your screen are sites that i visit on a daily or every few daily basis. these are the sites i'm most interested in. and they are in a nice orderly fashion in a handy dandy spot.
so, current events. and war. and terrorism, because thats the big word of the day.
and back in 4th, 5th, 6th-12th grade social studies. and then again us and georgia history for my elementary ed degree. what i learned back then was that when fighting the english for independence the colonists faught a different kind of war. they didn't come in an orderly fashion like the english were so used to, they came from all directions, at times when the english didn't expect. it was a radical new idea, and it was effective.
and the tactics of war progressed. and they became more and more sinister. they became more and more sneaky. and vietnam the might of the american army was beat by the not so might of the northern vietnamese because they faught even dirtier than ever before. they faught a war that we didn't expect. and they beat us at OUR game. like we beat the english so many years before.
and now, now there is a new kind of war. and we are being beat again by another ragged group of warriors. and yet we are still fighting with the same war machine we've been fighting with for so many years.
and you know what? those few people are winning with this new tactic. this new tactic called terrorism.
look. look at how many people were scared by a mesely *2* men in the MD / DC / VA area for many weeks. look at what timothy mcveigh pulled off. and the not so many people who have shocked and terrified millions upon millions of people because of september 11th.
and yet we still aren't learning a god damn thing.
and i have really tried not to be scared. because i don't want anyone to win. i don't want osama bin laden to win. and i don't want the rhetoric of the leaders of the western and eastern and southern and northern worlds to win.
but i am. i'm scared, because its the same damn thing that is happening. no one is doing ANYTHING different.
and in a week and a day my father and stepmother get on a plane and fly to thailand. and a week after that my mother gets on a plane and flys to eithopia. and 3 months and 3 days after that i get on a plane and fly to greece. and so my family is going to all parts of this big scary world. and the thought that goes through my head is i hope we all make it back alive.
in all of this the person that scares me the most is george w. bush. he's not listening. he's not learning. he doesn't seem to care. people are scared, and he's a huge cause of it, and he doesn't care.
i'm frustrated. i'm frustrated that there are millions upon millions of people in this country asking george w. bush to NOT go to war with iraq and he's not listening. he's not even making an attempt to realize that might does not make right.
bill clinton even said it.. if you keep killing them, they will only continue to kill you. if bill clinton can get it, if he can get his mind off his penis long enough to understand, why can't w. bush? why can't all those people who want to bomb iraq?
don't people get it? we can't continue to kill. we cannot continue to think we are this almighty country who cannot be hurt. we cannot continue to think that our force will fix everything. we simply need to accept the truth.
there are ways to deal without violence. and its time that we do. its time that the practice of war evolve into the practice of mediation.
Posted by brooke at December 06, 2002 08.14.55 PM
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amen sister!
Posted by Gina at December 7, 2002 6:22 AM
Violence begets violence. Simple as that.
Posted by -e- at December 7, 2002 7:49 AM
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