Maybe the postings need to be broken down into little pieces. Maybe there is no way for my brain to stretch so far as to embrace even two of the thousand corners of what is happening right now. Is intelligence being redefined? What does it mean to be "smart"? Does it mean to hit a very specific place and destroy it? What would dumb mean then? Just destroy? Is there a term for a bomb that is created to help to erect a building rather than removing it from satellite pictures?
Are soldiers considered "smart gun carriers?"
Does "intelligence" mean finding out things that can lead to death and destruction? What would be the name of the thing that is used to bring life and new solutions?
Does "friendly" just mean coming from the people who are told the same thing as the one being attacked? Is there "friendly beatings?", "friendly punishment", "friendly truth", "friendly death"?
Will there ever be an "Operation (insert name of your home-country as adjective) Freedom?" Will there be "embedded" reporting with those who come to "liberate"? Will they only come to destroy "relevant" targets, like hmm... the "Pentagon"? Or some other emerging targets in non residential areas?
Will you welcome these people with flowers, embracing the wonderful new order that will be so much better than what we have known for the length of our lifetime? How quickly will you realize that what is brought to you is so much better than what you adapted yourself to live with?
There will be no such thing as of course. It is a very wrong thing to think such things. Writing them down is much, much worse.
Will you welcome these people with flowers, embracing the wonderful new order that will be so much better than what we have known for the length of our lifetime? How quickly will you realize that what is brought to you is so much better than what you adapted yourself to live with?
Yeah, its a good point to make that a lot of the people who are using the argument of "but the Iraqi people are living under tyranny!" don't get.
I can't even say that I would hae thought of it as a defense to that argument until you put it how you did, and i think unless you have an experience that you can somehow relate (such as tranplanting to a new country/culture with urgency) this is not the first thing that comes
to your mind...until someone puts it there and you're thinking, "well yeah that makes perfect sense." and because you have this sort of language/historical context as a makeup of who you are it is very appropriate that you help explain it to others because this is the "aftermath" when we're (we, being Americans) are taught "kick ass now take names later."
so thanks and its good you blogged that.
i should go produce some art now too.
Posted by: em!ly on March 25, 2003 05:45 PM