I've got your headline right here, America.I know there was a group of people in Toronto that were allegedly preparing some sort of terrorist something against someone. For the sake of arguement, let's say they were, and the target was America.
So what. For the longest time, pretty much ever since they've had the power to do so, America has been bullying everyone. I'm thinking post WW II here: there was the Cold War, the SUPPORT of Al-Queda to try and cause a victory back in the 80's and install a puppet government, Vietnam, intervening in Iran, blahblahblah. The point is, America feels that if they aren't involved in something, either by 'peacekeeping' (read: going in with bigger guns) or openly supplying/fighting factions in an unending war, then it's not happening.
That is totally shit and the country deserves the economic bomb it's dropped. If someone(s) invaded America, the rest of the world wouldn't give a damn. Granted, America would probably win if they were invaded, but the point here is that AMERICA IS THE TERROR THREAT HERE. For example: If you do something Al-Queda doesn't like, you lose a building and some lives. Sure, that sucks. But it's nowhere NEAR equal to a country and an entire goddamn race of people, an entire culture.
Hell, it's not even one country or one people anymore; Iraq, Canada, and Madrid are 'evil' now as well. I don't see anyone, not even Saddam himself, being all buddy buddy with someone then bombing the shit out of them a quarter century later. Yes, dictatorship is bad, and yes, Hussien is bad. But is blowing the fuck out of his people making things any better? Damn right it's not. It's just blowing people up, and not just the badguys. America, please teach your bombers how to aim. Bin Laden didn't miss the World Trade Centre, maybe you could miss our guys now and then?
And that's another thing; America dragging other nations into this bullying, and by whining about this or that treaty even. Are they really suprised that Chretien hesitated to show any support at all when America's attack was already a massacare when it was just America by itself? Personally, I would've told Bush to eat me, if he wants to be king of the sandbox he can do it himself.
Funny thing is, when the UN tells Bush to sign the Kyoto, or to back the fuck up from Iraq, he just flips them the bird. He's telling every UN country there is that they're nothing next to America by doing that, and suprise suprise, member countries don't like that. I'm suprised the US is still in the UN, really. It's not like it's following UN delegation anyway, why should it get the benefits? America is practically a spy in the UN with how it's acting.
I'm not even going to get into the real reason there's troops over there. For one, it can't be just oil, I refuse to believe any person that's able to become the leader of a country is that petty, and for two, I don't know the whole story and I might be wrong. But seriously. America could actually be the chorus of angels it thinks it is and terrorists could actually be the demons Bush says they are, and this would still be wrong. It's a matter of principle I'm adressing, not reason.
Feh. It's bullshit. I'm done, but here's a parting thought courtesy of Edgeworth: [link]
Hissykitty out.
Zee Oopdatz
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Also... I just heard something on the radio that should be REALLY interesting. It seems Bill Clinton is adressing the public again, but in Canada, at the Memorial Centre. That's like... 3 blocks away from me. It's in three days... day after payday. Root for me! I wanna go!
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And "Teach your bombers how to aim"? We can put a 3 ton bomb in a fucking mail box from over 10 miles away. People die in combat that's the plain hard truth. People need to learn that. I'm sorry, but the bomb that only kills bad guys and no one else hasn't been developed yet.
Why don't you leave the whole war thing to those who know what they're doining...like the military. Taxes go to training.
I don't have anything against the guys getting sent over there. They're doing what they can with a shitty situation at the administrative level. The mistakes I've heard of have all been administrative or inteligence related: innacurate targets or just plain lazy manhunts that advise to just bomb evey hole in the mountain you can find until something bleeds or orders to set up camp in a sandstorm and so on. Things out of the a feild trooper's control.
Anyway, I've had plenty of time to rant about the war itself; as far as I figure, that's over. Now it's Bush and his figuring, 'Hey, since we've got guns over there already, why don't we,' insert target, be it the Hussien grudge, instilation of democracy in soveigern nations, or bitching about Canada being a loudmouth about ethics. I wouldn't be all that surprised if Dubbya scoots over to North Korea to try his hand again; though maybe not, that's not his family's fight. Feudal's what it is, just with more dangerous weapons. Nuke the fucker isn't an option anymore, everybody potentially has nukes.
Eventually all this toe stomping is going to piss somebody off. If this extended military campaign(along with a few bonehead investments by Bush once again inspired by Daddydays) doesn't drive the country into bankruptcy all on its own, they're gonna get it brought to them when they get ousted by the UN for thier dickishness. More likely they'll be ousted and get pissant, slap some country around a little, then get stuffed into the recieving end of over zealous reprisals by allied nations. What fun.
I mean, it's not like taxes funnelled to the military could be redirected to more longstanding sybols of power such as stimulating international trade or environmental studies, right?
I'm being a little extremist. There's always going to be assholes in the world that need to be shot. Fine, have a military. But don't be all proud because your country defines itself as capping any motherfucker that looks at him funny and spazes out whenever it's told to do something that might hamper it's industry for a little while. Unless there's some liberal looting going on in Iraq, there ain't much money being made by blowing shit up then building it again.
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That's the thing about existentialism. The more you think about it, the less real it seems.
Anyway, you are almost nail on the head ....almost. We all have the right to free speech and we all have the right to know what our government is doing. One of the things that is making this war more problematic is that fact that people who have no idea about basic feild tactics are making some of the calls. War belongs to the soliders, we should be able to handle it our way, we should be the only ones who have to live it.
As for the taxes comment, I wish more taxes would go to my paycheck. Funny how most of the States think the military is OVERpaid.
It's noble of you to want to protect the populace common from the facts of war, but like you say, people have the right to know what's going on. I don't think it needed to be the mediafest it was when it started, but the information should be accessable to those that want it.
As for paychecks, it's like anywhere. The layman or infantry as the case may be is underpaid, while the upper management or soldiers off the battlefeild see the profit. I doubt that'll ever change, but it sucks.
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That's the thing about existentialism. The more you think about it, the less real it seems.
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