'Now that the war has started'
Mar. 20th, 2003 10:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidThat's a quote from Bush's talk last night. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised how he hides behind the passive voice. If he hadn't started a war, how would it have started, with practically no one else in favor of it?
Of course, this does make me wonder what all those bombing raids we made in these last years were. I guess I just don't understand the idea of war in modern times.
Of course, there's all the other things I don't understand, that make this war ridiculous to me. What happened to Osama bin Laden, the one who orchestrated the major act of terrorism that set us on the path to war? It's not like Saddam Hussein is a wonderful guy, but he's been in power for 12 years since the last Gulf War, and there's no particular reason to attack now (oh, except that that will get the war safely over with by the time Bush is up for reelection, or something).
I also don't understand how not supporting the war can be taken as not supporting our troops. Wouldn't peace be less likely to cause soldier fatalities?
Was this how things were in the U.S. during the last Gulf War? It is strange to me, that the workaday world can continue so uninterruptedly. In Israel, we had gotten our gas masks, been taught how to use them (and the atropine, and whatever else came with in the gas mask box), sealed up a room. Other than exhortations to buy duct tape and nonperishable goods, there's nothing different. It's strange to me how the world can change so completely and not show it other than on the news stations, somehow.
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Of course, this does make me wonder what all those bombing raids we made in these last years were. I guess I just don't understand the idea of war in modern times.
Of course, there's all the other things I don't understand, that make this war ridiculous to me. What happened to Osama bin Laden, the one who orchestrated the major act of terrorism that set us on the path to war? It's not like Saddam Hussein is a wonderful guy, but he's been in power for 12 years since the last Gulf War, and there's no particular reason to attack now (oh, except that that will get the war safely over with by the time Bush is up for reelection, or something).
I also don't understand how not supporting the war can be taken as not supporting our troops. Wouldn't peace be less likely to cause soldier fatalities?
Was this how things were in the U.S. during the last Gulf War? It is strange to me, that the workaday world can continue so uninterruptedly. In Israel, we had gotten our gas masks, been taught how to use them (and the atropine, and whatever else came with in the gas mask box), sealed up a room. Other than exhortations to buy duct tape and nonperishable goods, there's nothing different. It's strange to me how the world can change so completely and not show it other than on the news stations, somehow.
o