Trying To Answer A Question That Shouldn't Be Asked
Like a good portion of the rest of the world, I've been watching the events going on along the Lebanon/Israel border with a mixture of disbelief and horror. I was brought up in a household that excepted everyone for their differences as well as their similarities. If you stop to think for a moment, even people with a huge amount of similar facets of their lives will still have a difference or two between them. The lack of cloning humans means that none of us are that alike just yet.
When you stir in a large spoonful of religion into an already volatile mixture, then it just adds to the possibility of explosion. The two main sides of this battle are some of the most firmly religious groups on the planet today which doesn't help the possibility of compromise like most religious theologians would seem to think. There are two groups of people that believe that they are right and won't back down unless their God comes down and says so.
Another view comes from the odd factors that led to this battle. Technically, Israel is fighting the Hezbollah but all they seem to be doing is blowing the hell out of Lebanon. On the other side you have Lebanon, a country that after nearly 20 years of civil war in some for or another, is finally getting back to being it's own country again but doesn't have the military strength to remove the Hezbollah from their borders right now. Israel could be helping them with this extraction but no Arab country wants to be seen as helping Israel in any way and the battles seem to be centered more on civilian areas of Lebanon. It's like the Israelis think that, if they can't tell if someone is a terrorist or not, they'll just blow them all up until they get all of the actual ones.
The whole situation seems like a stilt house built on top of quicksand. You might be safe for awhile but that doesn't mean that you aren't being sucked down into it. I'd like to think that the current US government had some ideas to help calm the situation down but that thought just melts away when you hear about Newt Gingrich already calling the current battles "World War III" on the weekend chat shows after getting a Republican talking points memo to make that statement if asked about it.
My brain could just be too removed from that situation to clearly come up with an answer either way. I was brought up in the California suburbs which is an easier life than most of the people that are directly effected by the battles. That being said, I'd like to trust in the idea of human nature and that it will move into the good and not the bad. As I've been thinking, there is a quote that has been popping into my head on a regular basis. It comes from the conclusion of the film WAR GAMES when the computer Joshua states, "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
That sounds like a good call to me.
Like a good portion of the rest of the world, I've been watching the events going on along the Lebanon/Israel border with a mixture of disbelief and horror. I was brought up in a household that excepted everyone for their differences as well as their similarities. If you stop to think for a moment, even people with a huge amount of similar facets of their lives will still have a difference or two between them. The lack of cloning humans means that none of us are that alike just yet.
When you stir in a large spoonful of religion into an already volatile mixture, then it just adds to the possibility of explosion. The two main sides of this battle are some of the most firmly religious groups on the planet today which doesn't help the possibility of compromise like most religious theologians would seem to think. There are two groups of people that believe that they are right and won't back down unless their God comes down and says so.
Another view comes from the odd factors that led to this battle. Technically, Israel is fighting the Hezbollah but all they seem to be doing is blowing the hell out of Lebanon. On the other side you have Lebanon, a country that after nearly 20 years of civil war in some for or another, is finally getting back to being it's own country again but doesn't have the military strength to remove the Hezbollah from their borders right now. Israel could be helping them with this extraction but no Arab country wants to be seen as helping Israel in any way and the battles seem to be centered more on civilian areas of Lebanon. It's like the Israelis think that, if they can't tell if someone is a terrorist or not, they'll just blow them all up until they get all of the actual ones.
The whole situation seems like a stilt house built on top of quicksand. You might be safe for awhile but that doesn't mean that you aren't being sucked down into it. I'd like to think that the current US government had some ideas to help calm the situation down but that thought just melts away when you hear about Newt Gingrich already calling the current battles "World War III" on the weekend chat shows after getting a Republican talking points memo to make that statement if asked about it.
My brain could just be too removed from that situation to clearly come up with an answer either way. I was brought up in the California suburbs which is an easier life than most of the people that are directly effected by the battles. That being said, I'd like to trust in the idea of human nature and that it will move into the good and not the bad. As I've been thinking, there is a quote that has been popping into my head on a regular basis. It comes from the conclusion of the film WAR GAMES when the computer Joshua states, "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
That sounds like a good call to me.
posted by RED Jr. at 3:53 PM
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