Posted by Alara on April 4, 2003, at 5:21:07
It's pathetic.
We applaud our allied `heroes' for rescuing one pretty, American young woman. Meanwhile our TV stations revel in our `victories': Many hundreds of innocent Iraqui men, women and children killed in the name of war. Somehow, those hundreds of lives pale into insignificance compared to that one sacred American life...See, these people are not human beings but statistics. They're just gory trophies for the blind forces who soldier on, in the name of their country..We never see the victims' faces in detail because our governments are too busy trying to lay on the propoganda.Here's a paradox: Terrorists in our society are supposedly evil. The definition of a terrorist is a person who plots to kill an innocent civilian. Yet our allied forces conspire to kill the same number of `enemy' human beings who died in the World Trade Towers.
Our allied forces are not terrorists? This is not about power and control?All day at work, people play power games,trying to disarm one another in order to gain promotion and power. Finding a way of working together in order to meet common goals is the last thig on people's minds...
The parallels are sad and condemning.
I can't help but ask: What is wrong with the human race? Why are people so greedy? Did I expect too much from others?
Feeling seriously jaded on my 33rd birthday.
And people wonder why I spend so much time with my cat.
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