Looking back at the weekend, I find it was actually quite surreal. I spent time with my son. Imbibed with my friends. Just relaxed. And all the while the TV is showing footage of the newest Arab-Israeli conflict. I never really got excited or worried about it. I have become numb to it. We have people, civilians and soldiers, dying every day in Iraq and Afghanistan, it has become almost non-news. So now, for our viewing delight, “Arab-Israeli Conflict LXXVII: Oy Vay, Here Comes Hezbollah”
Now that the weekend is past, upon further reflection about the newest conflict, I am just pissed, disappointed, and saddened. Never mind all of the ethnic, religious, and political factors that have shaped that area of the world, to me it just amazing that some people can have that much hate for each other.
My philosophy is simple…The world’s problems are not caused by religion, nationality, or ethnicity. In this world there are only two kinds of people…Assholes and People Who Aren’t…War Sucks.
“We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.”
--Eleanor Roosevelt
“Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent.”
--Issac Asimov
“Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism.”
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Never has there been a good war or a bad peace.”
--Ben Franklin
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.”
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
And Now Our Moment of Hinn:
Today, God’s Right Hand Man, Pat Robertson, and why he is against war:
"You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war ... We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator. It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with."
--Pat Robertson
3 comments:
God, you know I think that's the closest I've ever come to agreeing with Robertson. Not that I am for assassinating freely-elected leaders of other nations. That tactic is so, like, mid-late 20th century! ;)
Allie
Not an a-hole hehehehe
Next thing you'll tell me is that you've joined The 700 Club !!
Know thine enemy. LOL
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