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weaktwosWarning: what follows is a series of random thoughts, lacking in completeness. My inability to flesh this out properly is due to my ignorance and/or laziness.
I can understand why people would grow tiresome of Shock and Awe bombing. I am a little sick of it, myself.
I think I know the answer, but why not call it "Death and Dismemberment Bombing"?
I read an article today about Uday Hussein when he was in charge of the Iraqi Olympic committee.
I wonder if there should be a discipline called macro-psychology. When nations end up enabling bad behavior. Saddam has been in power for 30 years. We helped him off and on during the 80s. I was talking with a friend about his. He mentioned that Turkey has a history of not getting along with people. I suggested perhaps Turkey as a nation is bipolar.
As loud as we cry for the injustice perpetrated by Saddam and his psychotic little bastards, I have a real hard time accepting whatever machiavellian reasoning some Rumsfeld clone might come up with to justify helping a madman only to bomb him and his beaten-down people 15 years later.
I see people getting eaten by hate and fear. This is natural, but useless.
Once again, the problem of evil bites us in the ass. What is our responsibility towards nations that have clearly unjust, cruel leaders?
The conflicts we see now are tragic forms of noise. The root cause has yet to be properly addressed. The desire for power will always be present, but not in the same person. The masses of uneducated, starving people will not go away with war, unless you actually do kill them all. Those that live will continue to suffer. Suffering will breed resentment. Resentment will twist into terrorism.
Wouldn't it be nice if there were clear standards of conduct wherein the UN should step in? Like, kill your own people (create some criteria for this), and you have to go? Starve your people to death, allow riots over beauty pageants. Stuff like that.
I can understand why people would grow tiresome of Shock and Awe bombing. I am a little sick of it, myself.
I think I know the answer, but why not call it "Death and Dismemberment Bombing"?
I read an article today about Uday Hussein when he was in charge of the Iraqi Olympic committee.
I wonder if there should be a discipline called macro-psychology. When nations end up enabling bad behavior. Saddam has been in power for 30 years. We helped him off and on during the 80s. I was talking with a friend about his. He mentioned that Turkey has a history of not getting along with people. I suggested perhaps Turkey as a nation is bipolar.
As loud as we cry for the injustice perpetrated by Saddam and his psychotic little bastards, I have a real hard time accepting whatever machiavellian reasoning some Rumsfeld clone might come up with to justify helping a madman only to bomb him and his beaten-down people 15 years later.
I see people getting eaten by hate and fear. This is natural, but useless.
Once again, the problem of evil bites us in the ass. What is our responsibility towards nations that have clearly unjust, cruel leaders?
The conflicts we see now are tragic forms of noise. The root cause has yet to be properly addressed. The desire for power will always be present, but not in the same person. The masses of uneducated, starving people will not go away with war, unless you actually do kill them all. Those that live will continue to suffer. Suffering will breed resentment. Resentment will twist into terrorism.
Wouldn't it be nice if there were clear standards of conduct wherein the UN should step in? Like, kill your own people (create some criteria for this), and you have to go? Starve your people to death, allow riots over beauty pageants. Stuff like that.
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Date: 2003-03-25 05:09 am (UTC)