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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I feel bad for the guy. I really do. I can sympathize.
And the empire grows further. With the Republicans firmly in place in all states, helping oust Davis, and ensure a Republican recall, California is Republican. With the new electronic voting scam, the recall, and Saddam, Bush has a firm place in a re-election, and the empire grows further to what ends we don't know.
I know it goes against everything that anyone thinks, but I feel really badly about the language that we use around Saddam's seizure. I don't see it as a time of celebration.
Maybe I need to learn more about war, because I feel naive when I say, I personally feel that we continue to communicate in regards to this war as if it were a game and the enemy an inhuman object to obliterate.
I understand that as a group that we establish social agreements, and when you break the agreements that there are consequences. Sometimes the agreements are broken in tragic, gruesome ways, and it is cathartic to resolve a really bad situation. I do not think though that resolution is cause for celebration and self-congratulation when the conflict is grave and the outcome is devastating.
To clarify, I'm saying that it isn't that I disagree with the action (at this point in time), but I am uncomfortable with the role I personally play as an American who accepts the message in the form that we distribute to the world as: we win; you lose - yay us. It is the language that should be civilized and respective of a culture that we aggressively tread upon but is instead dramatic and childlike that I find scary. By now, our collective voice should be more mature.
I just don't think that the time calls for high fives. Maybe it's just me??
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Originally posted by america is the greatest threat to the world, not terrorism or nuclear bombs or anything else. europe has to realize this and unite to keep back the dirty xxxxin americans.
My son, you are learning well.
Already the talking heads are praising this as a moral victory for the U.S. Empire and the Buxxxxes, and this is a 'message' to any other dictator in the world that is not approved by the Washinton autocrats, of course dictators that are approved by them, or dictators that were created by them ( Saddam ) are erased from history.
Furthermore, the U.S. is the only country in the world to have used a nuclear weapon, two of them, on Japan, so in psychology, to be able to predict the criminals behavior in the future, you look at the past behavior, and chances are he will repeat it. The U.S. will take the same course of action again, since this 'war on terrorism' is unwinnable and this temporary enthusiasm with Saddams capture will not gain them a 'victory'. The questions will rise agian ' why are we there? '.
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