Posted by alexandra_k on November 2, 2005, at 21:19:24
In reply to Re: AAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH » alexandra_k, posted by Dinah on November 2, 2005, at 21:02:25
> That's fine, Alexandra. I don't mind you opposing it all you like.
Goodo. Thats actually our country line too... 'We refuse to send people to die for a war we do not believe in'. Not sure what the last war we believed in was...
I'm just a pacifist.
I don't think we should kill people.
> I'm not sure how I feel about it personally.
> I listened to "A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal" that left me more ambivilant than ever.> But I do object to it being linked to something that it really didn't affect at all.
Yeah. Though indirect effects can be hard to measure... But yeah, I take your point.
> Especially since that disaster has had such a great effect on me. I heard about the deaths today. I heard about the flood walls today. I'm a bit distraught.
(((Dinah)))
> And to have the military presence in New Orleans accused of doing things they didn't do. Because the National Guard was one of the few things that worked in this debacle.
Yup. It is a little like police too. Just takes one corrupt cop to bring the whole profession into disrepute. And guilt by association is hard. And unfair. Unfair to all those who aren't corrupt.
I don't mean to run down people who join up because they want to positively benefit the country.
That is a noble aim.
I don't mean to run down the military who want to positively benefit the country.
That is a noble aim.
I am just a little dubious on how the person calling the shots (who isn't in the military themselves sometimes), well, I'm a little dubious that they know best what is likely to positively benefit the country.
And I'm more than a little dubious when that involves killing people.
But yeah, I do think I hear what you are saying.
I didn't mean to be hard on you and 10.
I think you are both teriffic people.
And Auntiemel of course.But the system...
Considered abstractly...
Scaires the sh*t out of me.
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