the high road
Sep. 16th, 2001 08:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
iamomI've been thinking about what what an astounding example it would set for the Middle East if we didn't retaliate. Far from demonstrating our weakness, it would set us far above the world stage in progressiveness, tolerance, and respect. Respect for humanity, overall: only the strongest moral fibre could permit a nation like the United States not to spill more blood in return for its own. Imagine what kind of bargaining chip that would be in the Middle East conflict in general.
That response might be too progressive, though. Unless one makes a conscious decision to change their behaviour from their own norm, they most often go ahead and do what you thought they were going to do in the end. Things usually end up going the way you think they will.
There's nothing wrong with that either, though. If the US starts a war against Afghanistan, then that's obviously what they were meant to do. Rather, it's what they will be doing, and there's not much you can do to stop something once it's underway. Not anything with as much momentum as this war is going to have, anyway.
I'm really thankful for the place in which I live. It's a smaller center, with only about 300 thousand people when you include all of the broadest outlying communities. In the grand scheme of things, it has not been subject to too many crazy events like what happened last week. We did have that tremendous explosion here about 80 years ago, but that's pretty far in the past, now. I'm not under the illusion that we're immune to something like this, but I do feel pretty safe living here.
I hope everyone's doing well today.
That response might be too progressive, though. Unless one makes a conscious decision to change their behaviour from their own norm, they most often go ahead and do what you thought they were going to do in the end. Things usually end up going the way you think they will.
There's nothing wrong with that either, though. If the US starts a war against Afghanistan, then that's obviously what they were meant to do. Rather, it's what they will be doing, and there's not much you can do to stop something once it's underway. Not anything with as much momentum as this war is going to have, anyway.
I'm really thankful for the place in which I live. It's a smaller center, with only about 300 thousand people when you include all of the broadest outlying communities. In the grand scheme of things, it has not been subject to too many crazy events like what happened last week. We did have that tremendous explosion here about 80 years ago, but that's pretty far in the past, now. I'm not under the illusion that we're immune to something like this, but I do feel pretty safe living here.
I hope everyone's doing well today.
