Breathe in, Breathe out
Back from the wedding, had a decent time. No major felonies were committed, which is a godsend when you consider some of the participants.
Got asked a lot about my feelings towards the war in Iraq, which was unexpected. Hard to really call it a war- if we take more than 200 causualities in this, it will only be because we would be fighting a pseudo-war and trying to protect as many innocent lives as possible. Think about it- the most logical way to approach the situation would be to bomb the hell out of every single target we encounter- Iraq wants us to have to fight within the cities in order to take a lot of casualities, which is fubar. Logically you would pound the city into dust, then sweep in and pick off the stragglers with special forces, then move in with actual infrantry.
Of course the cost to innocent lives would be attrocious in Iraq, not to mention the political fallout, so we are going to take a large risk when we go into this that we don't have to take if we weren't concerned about civilians. Probably a risk worth taking to be honest.
Suffice to say, I'm actually for the war, if you can call it one, I'm even part of the camp that believes we need to do it without the UN whatsoever. This makes me a war-monger in certain people's eyes, which is fine. To each their own, and while I am equally guilty of typing them, in this case as naive, part of me smiles in appreciation of the fact that they live in a country that has allowed them to be so sheltered and naive.
Perhaps I'll write more about it as time allows, but I will say it's very hard to have a rational conversation about the issue when someone's entire view point is based on emotion.
Posted by drunkenbatmanMarch 17, 2003, at 02:07 PM
