The purpose of my blog was given in my first post, but I feel as though I have dismally failed to keep up with the goal that I had set for myself in writing this blog.
But perhaps I haven't failed....
This is the next post.
This post will tell about the world as it should be.
In this world, whether you believe it was created by God the Father, Allah, Charles Darwin, Jehovah, or by way of a Big Bang, it is imperfect. People have evolved to a point where they are too intelligent (or otherwise) for their own good. From the development of nukes to the idea that certain people are worth more (or less) than other people, humans are clearly thinking too much.
We believe that we can do whatever we want without repercussion and that the world will bend to our every need. Unfortunately, this is not true.
Jews and Muslims have been fighting forever about whether or not the "Holy Land" was promised to one or the other by God.
Within Islam, Sunni and Shia adherents have been fighting amongst themselves forever because there is no diplomacy in Islam.
Until recently, Catholics (the IRA) and Protestants in Northern Ireland have been fighting about the sovereignty of the six Northern Irish counties: do they belong to Ireland or the United Kingdom?
In all these cases, people have been fighting religiously for religious (or, indeed, secular) purposes, and CANNOT get along. Religion is a touchy subject, obviously, but that shouldn't mean that people can't diplomatically settle their differences. This has happened in Northern Ireland, as we all know, but the Muslims simply can't stop fighting. They believe that theirs is the only way to Heaven, and that all others must submit or die. I, for pretty obvious reasons, have a problem with that. (I also have a problem with a certain monkey *AHEM* I mean president marching aimlessly into a stable country and causing it to descend into chaos and, for all practical purposes, anarchy).
I'm not condemning Islam to Hell (not here, anyway), and I can't be accused of favouring another religion because I truly don't (but that's a story for another time).
People also don't learn from their mistakes. Well, government don't. Hmmm... some governments might learn from their mistakes, but surely not the US.
Viet Nam taught them nothing about invading territory where they know nothing about the culture or the people there. Bush the monkey man chose to up and walk into a stable country because there was a potential threat to Israel and there was the thought that Americans might not get their oil.
Maybe my ranting is incoherent and rambling, but what I want someone to get out of this is that the US's role as "world security force" is flawed and needs correcting.
You know what?
This is going in a totally different direction than I wanted it to.
Let me try again in a few days and see if I can separate my thoughts....
Saturday, 10 November 2007
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