Okay, I guess I should explain myself better.
I don’t mean waving flags. I mean the people who go up to others, dripping in red white and blue clothing and say-“Why don’t you have a flag up?!!! How dare you!” Or people who would come into Kmart upset because we sold out of flags. People who never cared before, making a big honking show of it.
That’s what I meant-I’m sorry I wasn’t clearer.
um, let’s see:
how about the fact that street lights are much brighter than candles?
as are other things such as CAR head lights.
really, some people are fucking morons.
I don’t want to get into a major pissing contest here. What am I saying? This is the Pit. Guinastasia’s point, to the extent there may be an idea flopping around in that poor fevered brain, might be that flag waiving and candle burning and ribbon wearing is a cheap form of patriotism. It costs nearly nothing and requires little effort. Unfortunately, under the present circumstances it is about all we have. We feel compelled to do something. Flags on Porn-dot-com does, however, seem a little strange.
The real question is whether our people will get bored and lose interest in what looks like a protracted struggle that will not offer very many opportunities to celebrate the ultimate victory of good (that is, us) over evil(that is, them). Right now about all we have to offer is posturing and bellicose language. The serious work is still ahead. The general public may never find out what that work is or when it is done.
Running around yelling, “We’re Number One,” and The USA Is Going to Kick Ass,” is all very well but it isn’t going to be much help when six months down the road we have no assurance that the people who perpetrated this horror are not still operating. If war it is we will probably have no D-Day or Gettysburg to point to. At best we will have some retaliatory air raids and a long secret campaign of special operations that the people who are involved cannot talk about. Cheap patriotism will not sustain us through this effort.
Incidentally, in this effort, given the people we are dealing with and the people whose cooperation we will need, it may not be a good idea to call the thing a “crusade.”
CrankyAsAnOldMan scratches her head, trying to figure out how to get away with making this her new sig
Exactly. Many of the people flag waving are the same people who could care less about this country’s everyday problems.
Not all-just SOME.