When is it war?
Posted by in War at 3:43 p.m. on April 04th, 200311 Comments 0 Pings
When is it a war?
Huge explosions in the center of this fabled city, in its biggest market; American planes roar overhead; body parts litter the streets. Thousands of innocents die, and a nation seems on the verge of tearing itself apart with grief and rage. It’s seeing itself as the innocent victim of an unprovoked war of aggression, racism, and hatred. Calls for revenge ring out among the nation’s citizens, the press, the leaders.
Huge explosions in the center of this fabled city, in its biggest market; American planes roar overhead; body parts litter the streets. Thousands of innocents die, and a nation seems on the verge of tearing itself apart with grief and rage. It’s seeing itself as the innocent victim of an unprovoked war of aggression, racism, and hatred. Calls for revenge ring out among the nation’s citizens, the press, the leaders.
The world community is shocked by the barbarity of the attack, the total lack of justification, the loss of so many innocent lives at the whim of just one man. A few governments around the world support the brutal attack, in spite of the overall opinion of their populations, hungry for a slice of the power and respect its perpetrator commands.
United States, September, 2001. And you don’t call that war?
Huge explosions in the center of this fabled city, in its biggest market; American planes roar overhead; body parts litter the streets. Thousands of innocents die, and a nation seems on the verge of tearing itself apart with grief and rage. It’s seeing itself as the innocent victim of an unprovoked war of aggression, racism, and hatred. Calls for revenge ring out among the nation’s citizens, the press, the leaders.
Huge explosions in the center of this fabled city, in its biggest market; American planes roar overhead; body parts litter the streets. Thousands of innocents die, and a nation seems on the verge of tearing itself apart with grief and rage. It’s seeing itself as the innocent victim of an unprovoked war of aggression, racism, and hatred. Calls for revenge ring out among the nation’s citizens, the press, the leaders.
The world community is shocked by the barbarity of the attack, the total lack of justification, the loss of so many innocent lives at the whim of just one man. A few governments around the world support the brutal attack, in spite of the overall opinion of their populations, hungry for a slice of the power and respect its perpetrator commands.
United States, September, 2001. And you don’t call that war?