Brian
10th August 2002, 06:09
A quote from a news paper.
"The United States is trying to bomb into shape the new Afghanistan it wants to see emerging from the ashes of this war."
This is happening again? And they wonder why people are flying planes into their buildings.
If one good thing has come out of this futile cycle of action and reaction is that is has shed more light on how much of a farce the UN is.
Another strange thing that has happened in light of the attacks in the US is that I find myself agreeing with Bob Brown a hell of a lot. For god's sake, he's a Greens senator! Yes, I'm very ashamed, but still, his views on these events have certainly been a pleasant alternative to the 'terrier-dog' approach of the leaders of the two major parties.
It's sad really, the Baby Boomer generation has grown old and senile (not to mention even more hypocritical than they were already) and they want a war. Never mind that there is no enemy to fight and there is no good reason, hell, they'll just invent one, like they have. Conscription, ha! It'll be a strange day indeed when I agree to fight America's war for them. I'm sorry, but you can't turn back 50 years of society's social development just to turn my peers and I into ignorantly patriotic gunfodder because it suits you. Maybe we should send in all of the over-50's first, they would get to experience the glory of war that no-one with half a brain under 30 wants to and it'll solve the western world's aging population problem. What better way to do that than with an unnecessary war in a place where the side 'we're' fighting on is both not supported and not wanted by the regional population.
And I thought we were smarter than that. Oh well, so much for civility, again...
(Edited by Brian at 12:11 am on Aug. 10, 2002)
(Edited by Brian at 2:18 am on Aug. 10, 2002)
"The United States is trying to bomb into shape the new Afghanistan it wants to see emerging from the ashes of this war."
This is happening again? And they wonder why people are flying planes into their buildings.
If one good thing has come out of this futile cycle of action and reaction is that is has shed more light on how much of a farce the UN is.
Another strange thing that has happened in light of the attacks in the US is that I find myself agreeing with Bob Brown a hell of a lot. For god's sake, he's a Greens senator! Yes, I'm very ashamed, but still, his views on these events have certainly been a pleasant alternative to the 'terrier-dog' approach of the leaders of the two major parties.
It's sad really, the Baby Boomer generation has grown old and senile (not to mention even more hypocritical than they were already) and they want a war. Never mind that there is no enemy to fight and there is no good reason, hell, they'll just invent one, like they have. Conscription, ha! It'll be a strange day indeed when I agree to fight America's war for them. I'm sorry, but you can't turn back 50 years of society's social development just to turn my peers and I into ignorantly patriotic gunfodder because it suits you. Maybe we should send in all of the over-50's first, they would get to experience the glory of war that no-one with half a brain under 30 wants to and it'll solve the western world's aging population problem. What better way to do that than with an unnecessary war in a place where the side 'we're' fighting on is both not supported and not wanted by the regional population.
And I thought we were smarter than that. Oh well, so much for civility, again...
(Edited by Brian at 12:11 am on Aug. 10, 2002)
(Edited by Brian at 2:18 am on Aug. 10, 2002)