my teacher asked me to make sure i said this is blog post 2(as in, the second turn in of it) so…

blog post 2, shelly

now, on to it. war. this whole war in iraq, afghanistan, possibly iran if we get a certain old man as president…it sucks ass. i am a pretty big war hawk, and certainly something of an imperialist, but i disagree with these wars as much as most of the world. not because i care that people are dying, or the world hates us more. but because it is strategically and economically unsound.

bush, cheney and all their cronies likely knew about the hatred between the 3 major groups in iraq, and ignored it. they probably knew that, like the vietnamese and koreans (bush certainly would have if he hadnt pussed out of vietnam and actually served his “duty”), they would fight a geurilla war. im sure they even knew that there were no WMDs and, overall, iraq was no threat and afghanistan was very little threat. they either passed that over, or they didnt care because they wanted the wars. fine, whatever, go to war.

our “great” nation has actually had at least 1 war every generation, with the exception of one that i can think of (in between the french-american conflict/war of 1812, and before the mexican-american war. unless you count the continued battles with the american indians, but that counts more as small skirmishes, or whole-scale massacre). every other generation, from the first americans, up to us, has had at least one fairly large war, though a few ended quite quickly like the spanish-american war.

it isnt going away anytime soon. war IS the natural order of things. im sorry hippies, but people are going to kill eachother. no matter how large or small, short or long, or how powerful or weak the opponent, people will die. granted, not many americans have died (in fact, in the big picture, america actually has an incredibly low death count in war. in ww1 and ww2 combined we lost less people than a single month of the germans in ww2. hell, in vietnam we lost fewer people than died in the 30 years war, 330 years before vietnam), but thousands upon thousands of iraqi soldiers, civilians, and people just getting unlucky being there not even because of the war have died.

but so what? it sucks for their families, sure. it sucks for the kids without mothers or fathers, its terrible for the parents who lost someone. but that IS WAR.  if the american people are so bloody against it, why dont they do something about it? i think it has been pretty well demonstrated marching in the streets with little posterboards doesnt do a damn thing. it didnt work for vietnam, either. protesting didnt keep the americans from fighting the brits, or from joining ww1 or ww2. that isnt going to work. it simply doesnt.

if you dont like the war, stop being such a twat and DO SOMETHING. im perfectly content to let soldiers who decide to join the military go over there and die. its their choice. if a draft is put in, then ill fight. aside from that, fuck it.

get over it. war has been around for 7000 years, on a large scale. before that, there were skirmishes, and before that, simple fights. it isnt going away. we arent any more “civilized” or “better” than the mesopotamians, or the aryans, or the vikings. we are the same bloody, savage creatures. weve just gotten better at killing.

goddamn hippies.