Just read AP report about dead civilians in Afghanistan...[ ] <-this close to puking

[Traumatizd4life]

I read the news i see the lies
of nation fucked and hypocracised
A strange shadow covers the sky
as a blur of fire passes by
on mission of destruction
they watch the people die
A starving man pulls himself from the dust
His child gone but "In god we trust"
You sit back, eat your dinner
while the boys father straps on a bomb
ready to kill all the sinners
You make jokes about the enemy hiding
but as your arrogance grows
thier anger is rising
You sit around watching the press
tell about the casualties
how there are only a few days left
You ask the waiter for a steak
but the man in the back serving your dinner
is the one who vowed to kill all the sinners
you eat your food then get the rest to go
making sure to say please
but to bad for you the food you just ate
was laced with disease
So you sit in your bed with only a few days left
Not to the war but to your life but i guess its for the best
considering you did nothing to help them
you made an enemy out of a friend
they call it terror as it spreads long after your gone
they say this is terrorism
but guess what there wrong
because a father avenging his child from an enemy unseen is nothing to laughed at and i know you know what i mean

 

[alykitty]

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[attaris]

we're all gonna die...

 

[E-girl]

this whole thing is just disgusting. people do not value life. those people over there have brainwashed little children... those kids will someday die for their people and think that's a saintly thing.
i thank God every day that i am alive. i have made it a personal issue to stop taking my life for granted, no matter how bad it might suck at the moment.
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E-girl
IM: tiggersgurl2067
"It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It's the dream afraid of waking that never takes a chance. It's the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give. And the soul afraid of dying, that never learns to live."

 

[plazma]

bravo...

-plaz out-
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[Roches]

no, i really can't agree with that. i'd just ask you, what do you propose they do? economic sanctions? maybe have the UN condemn something? harsh words?
that people should not do things like this does not need to be said. that civilians should not be bombed should be obvious.
but to suggest that nothing should be done, that the world should just stand by and do nothing out of the fear of anthrax or Sarin is equally wrong.
i remember seeing reports over the last couple years about the situation in afghanistan. about illegal, underground schools for women who want, against the will of their government, to be educated. equally illegal beauty parlors. and televisions. it's illegal to own a chessboard. to preach christianity. it's illegal for hindus to appear in public without wearing a badge.
none of that means that these people deserve to die because of who leads them. no one ever has.
but no one has ever deserved to die for believing or failing to believe in a particular religion or sect of a religion. no one has ever deserved to die as leverage in politics, or to create terror.
western culture is the product of thousands of years of art, science and philosophy. it is the result of a growing desire for freedom and prosperity. it is not perfect, but it differs from despotism in that it strives for perfection. these are fundamentally human values. it is not wrong to ask others to embrace them. it is not wrong to kill the enemies of humanity, if they refuse to respond to anything short of killing.
I still haven't said what I want to say.
now-i'm going to post something from my book. it has a lot about right vs. wrong, about Enemies and just causes, about a powerful and well-developed country that likes to use its power to order other countries around. early in the book, the main character believes that his nation has strayed from its original ideal, that it has become corrupt (i suppose you could say the same about the US). this paragraph is spoken by the leader of that nation (who is rather more eloquent than his parallel):
"And therefore I ask you: is there no enemy so malicious, so terrible, so demeaning in his treatment of men, that he should be worse a foe than war itself, and thus merit war?"
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“Therefore I beg of you to have some shred of faith in my years; therefore I pray that you might for a moment suspend your quarrel with me so as to serve the country which, regardless of its righteousness or virtue, is yours and loves you unrequited. The time to speak of virtue and sin and faith is over. Now the Enemy has made war upon us, and there will be war.” - EM.