I can’t say that I’m in favor of this war. Liberating Iraq and giving it back to its people is a Good Thing. But so is following int’l law, working with the UN, and not setting dangerous precedents. I might also add that starting a war that may not actually solve any of the problems it is meant to solve ain’t such a good thing either. When I watched on C-Span “A Debate on American Power and the Crisis Over Iraq”, I really went back and forth after each speaker. “Yeah, we gotta go to war…no we can’t go to war…oh, man, we totally have to do this…this war is totally wrong…” and so on.
Anywho, today I saw Saddam’s presidental palace get blown to hell on live television. I will tell you this, without remorse or shame, that it was great! That evil son of a bitch and his cronies took a hell of a hit in Baghdad today, from the looks of it. And I saw it as it happened. That is incredible. Half way across the effing globe and I get to watch as that puke bag’s power infrastructure, both real and symbolic, gets pulverized. It felt really good.
I kept thinking: gosh, I hope we get to see it when they bomb the Chinese embassy.
Or captures it in such wonderful color! Although I wish this war were being produced in HDTV widescreen format… and shot on an all-digital medium, so the film won’t degrade over time for those of us who’ll want to see it in theatres later on.
The U.S. should just turn itself into a giant mercenary outfit. It’s a shame that we waste all this money on awesome equipment and then it just sits around getting old.
Seeing a brutal dictator go down and be (hopefully) replaced by a constitutional republic usually brings me down. For some odd reason I’m finding this very uplifting.
