Yeah so I don’t post on here as often as I thought I might; things are busy with school and working on the play.
So we’re bombing Afghanistan. Earlier today we bombed a Red Cross building. This is the “collateral damage” they were talking about, at least there’s been very little “unfortunate loss of life.” Honestly, I think this is all very stupid. I do not believe in war, in any form. And I sure hope this “War on Terrorism” is much more effective than the other wars we’ve fought against obscure things… the war on poverty didn’t do very much and the war on drugs hasn’t been a shining success. I think we should stop bombing Afghanistan. We should stop right now, because we’ve proven the point, we’re the neighborhood bullies. What we ought to do is send 5,000 or 6,000 or however high the death toll from 11 September is�we should send them to Afghanistan. Hell, let’s send double. Let’s send twelve thousand engineers, builders, famers, relief workers, doctors, nurses, send an army of hope into that country and help them rebuild it. Let it take as long as it takes. That’s what we should do.
Everyone high up is saying that this is a different kind of war, against a different enemy who isn’t a country. I hope, I really hope, that somewhere in our American consciousness we’re starting to realize what that really means�that we are more than just the lines drawn on maps. Humanity has been fighting over those lines for centuries; it’s about time we realized the need to stop drawing lines. That’s the first thing we did when we came here, we drew a line and said “this is our land, that over there is yours.” Christian�Savage. Colored�White. All over the world we need to erase these lines: Afghani�American, Israeli�Palestinian, Indian�Kashmiri�Pakistani, Turkish Cypriot�Greek Cypriot, Protestant�Catholic and most important East�West, all of them, all of them gone. We need to erase the lines from the map, and look at the world as being populated by human beings, not by ethnic groups or religious groups or consumer groups or whatever. We need to look at each other and be compassionate. Because each and every one of us suffering, and a lot of that suffering is caused by the lines we draw.
That’s how I’m seeing the world tonight.
