high-priority component of American military procedure once the battle has started and the bullets, flamethrowers, iron bombs, chemical agents, napalm, air-fuel cells, shells, shrapnel and claymore mines have started flying.
My God! You boys make me sick! Sick, I say of hearing you over simplify, over analyze, and over dramatize this mess we're ALL in right now.
I know I'm not exactly the most politically savvy person around, and I'm sure that CapK or mav or TEd or someone will come up with a way of pinning all the blame on ME PERSONALLY because I've bothered to open my mouth right now, but Good Lord!
Yes, each of us Americans fundamentally believe that the right thing to do right now is go drop a whole load of napalm on every innocent Afghan child we can find. [/end sarcasm]
In this time when TEMPERS RUN HIGH through most of the country and much of the world, people are likely to say things that are more than what they mean. That's no reason to take the words of some zealot preacher on the 700 Club and turn them around and spit them back at us as if you think that Jackie or Helen or I AGREE with everything that man said just because we're Americans.
Yes, I feel patriotic right now. I get a little teary when I see a flag at half mast. I also think that it would be a terrible thing to go to war with an unknown enemy before careful consideration. And as much as I disapprove of Bush, I sincerely believe that, despite all the postruing the government's doing right, now he won't 'bomb Afghanistan back to the stone age' without careful consideration, and without justification (evidence that they really know who/what/why about their targets).
I actually had something apropos (and nice) to say, but if I post it someone will find some way to turn it into "America is evil" "America's going to bomb Norway" "Years ago, America tortured babies" so I'm not going to post it.
