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Thursday, March 20, 2003
There's not much to say...
this morning. Information is being spoonfed to the media, who are spending countless hours on conjecture and "what does this mean". Since I'm not Brian Williams or Aaron Brown, I don't feel like I have to fill time. Like Atrios, I don't feel especially compelled to give a play-by-play of the war. I'll probably just keep an eye on how others in the blogosphere are reacting to it; from the thoughtful Jeanne D'Arc:
I'm not surprised that there are Americans who believe their safety lies in the deliberate murder of children. I spend too much time on the internet to be surprised by that. I am stunned that the newspaper in this gentle town would publish a letter demanding those murders. I wrote a letter complaining about it, but I doubt it will have any effect. (Well, not on the newspaper anyway. Writing it made me feel stronger, although I'm not sure that matters.) There's a deeper problem when even reasonable people don't immediately recognize that there are levels of hatred we can't put in a newspaper as if they were part of civilized people's range of opinion. If glorying in children's deaths sneaks across the boundary line dividing the monstrous from what is considered acceptable, what's next? Once a boundary like that has been crossed, just saying, "Don't do that again," doesn't even approach being a strong enough reaction.
I find myself wondering if the woman who wrote that letter used to be a decent person -- or perhaps, in some ways, still is.
to the Blustery Barcalounger Warriors like Steven den Beste:
Oh, I don't know about that. He's got 35 other nations standing with him, at last report. Didn't I hear something about the British being involved in this? I was sure I had. And wasn't there support from the rest of the "Gang of 8"? And the Vilnius group? Qatar? Bahrain? Kuwait? Australia? Japan?
But let that go; none of the hundreds of millions of people who live in those nations count. Or maybe I imagined it all. President Bush stands alone.
And all he has for company is 280 million Americans. Including me. (This isn't just President Bush's war; it's mine, too.)
And keeping Bush and the other 280 million of us company in our desperate loneliness is the largest navy in the world. And the best and most powerful army and air force.
And we're the biggest, and the bestest, and the rightest, and God is on our side.
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