i'm proud to be an american. i'm proud that i get to live in an air conditioned house, have four tvs, have the right to be an asshole any day i want. i love the fact that i can guzzle gas and make a living designing buildings. i love my luxuries. i love freedom. i love being able to live my days out relatively sheltered from the rest of the worlds ailments. and as much as many people would like to live in their little delusional worlds spouting out ideas of peace, love, and harmony, the fact is they enjoy the right to care because of where they are. they have the right to care and protest this war because we're americans. what better things do we have to do? we don't worry about rebel guerrilla wars, hunger, dying of cold, and the other long list of shit that goes on outside our rainbow colored borders. yeah. you can't forget that. we live the way we do in our little micro worlds because of what our government does on the macro level. if you don't agree, then you have to be willing to give it all up....before you can say that what we are doing is entirely wrong. being on top means stepping on man, woman, and child to get there. you have to except that reality. this is not a beautiful world.
at the same time though...as i'm watching films, documentaries, clips about the war and the iraqi people, i'm devastated. i have sympathy for the human will to live. we of all people should know what it's like having no control over our government. should we be punished for our government's actions? i can't help but feel that this war is so very wrong in way too many ways to even begin. world opinion, for one. the nation's opinion, for another. the fact that no one's opinion seemed to matter for the us gov. that's a scary thing. the idea of people unnecessarily dying...innocent people. in the end, it'll just be numbers...a count of how many died accidentally, of course. innocent people die in war, it happens. but can you imagine the terror in all of their minds? here's this big bad nation, the us, known to use weapons of mass destruction invading your country. it has to exceed the fear that we experienced during 911 which for most of us on the southern states was mostly null.
ugh. this whole affair is gut wrenching. it just feels so wrong at the bottom of my heart. so so so wrong. i support our troops and i felt that we had no choice but to go to war..as a privileged american...but god. at what price are we attaining our stature as the number one bully in the world?
i can't even stand to watch the president on tv anymore. i wish he would just be honest. tell everyone why we're really doing this. stop hiding behind this bullshit rhetoric about pre-emtive strikes.
it's not, "i hit him because he was going to hit me." it's more like, "i hit him because i knew i could and i wanted his lunchbox"
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