yellowducky's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My Resolution I'm getting changed to the day shift soon. Glory be!! To not be a walking zombie, how will it feel? Plus, it's a promotion. I guess they feel guilty for putting me through so much crap with the half-developed database they just dumped in my lap without any instructions. Had a date last night. He was good looking, fun, interesting conversationalist. First date. I kissed him. Sitting on my neighbors fence. I've never done that before. I've listened to countless hours of talk radio, read opinions in the paper and in diaryland, and felt completely incredulous. Not by the fact that my country is simultaneously bombing military targets and dropping food in Afghanistan (which the tiny bit of liberal in me applauds). Not by the fact that a month later they continue pulling bodies out of the debris of the WTC (I still cry at each one).
Not even by the fact that people have such strong and opposing views on this whole issue (this is America, it's allowed. That's why it's the best country in the world. Nobody else can have an opinion though--I'm just joking!! Sheesh!!).
But by the fact that those who oppose this war, for the most part, tend to focus on one point and doggedly snarl over it despite the fact that their argument is often blatently faulty. Case in point. People who oppose this war because we are bombing innocents. Well, unless those vegetarian, culturally sensitive food packets also contain incediary devices I see no validity to their argument. That's why we took so long before we started bombing. We weren't plotting coordinates of hospitals and orphages to hit. We were paving the way to make this as precise a mission as possible. Yes, we were emotional immediately after the attacks and called for revenge, but we were in pain and it was a knee-jerk reaction. Bush has gone about this in a very deliberate, intelligent manner. What really gets me though, is that these people, who are "anti-war, give peace a chance", are also some of the most hostile, inflamatory, beligerent voices out there. If they really wanted me to listen to them, they would present their arguments in such a manner so that I could see they were swayed by fact rather than hysteria. So, from now one I'm just going to assume that the radicals, of every camp, are borderline personality disorders and dismiss their railings as such. Maybe this way I can keep myself from getting a brain aneurysm. Oh yeah, I'm also disturbed by the fact that we will soon have German (NATO) planes patrolling our air space on the East Coast. 7:15 a.m. - October 10, 2001 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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