Posted by Smalls at syr-24-24-14-133.twcny.rr.com on February 04, 2002 at 15:03:59:
In Reply to: you found the half time jingoistic? posted by Duffless on February 04, 2002 at 14:42:37:
I honestly think that we should be a secure enough nation... and people... where we can show our support for each other in the time after a national tragedy without... just blindly sucking up to every human being with a uniform and a gun and transmuting the flag into a symbol of violence and paranoid instead of a beacon of freedom.
A bunch of asshole killed a bunch of innocents... so we're sending some boys overseas to throw those assholes into prison so they can never do that again. That's a case of war as a necessary evil... and I support it to that extent.
But war is a path of last resort, orchestrated by old men hundreds of miles away against old men hundreds of miles away using young uneducated paupers on both sides... it's a tragedy whenever it has to happen, even if it's for the right reasons.
War should never be mistaken for glorious... and should never be used for racist purposes, as so many assholes who just want an excuse to blow up every brown-skinned man woman and child... as so many politicians are trying to turn it into.
Especially those who want to turn this into a much larger war just to shove Enron under the rug.
Democracy's blood is the freedom to be skeptical. Let's not bleed to death.
Mike