Operation Iraqi Freedom

Right.

My first blog post in over a year and I call it "Operation Iraqi Freedom."

It's just...

It's just...

How could anyone have possibly bought into that? Did anyone really think that the US soldiers would be welcomed as liberators? Maybe they were tired of their government, but I'm sure there are plenty of totalitarian regimes the US could go after.

Oh I don't want to go on about this. It makes me very unhappy. We all need to learn to get along. We need to melt down all our guns and swords and make streetlights. Or wheelchairs. Or cookie sheets. Everyone appreciates these things. People like cookies.

Of course to some extent it is our capitalist society that prevents us from getting along. It's easy for me to say because I have warm chair to sit on and if I didn't, maybe I'd want to kill you and take yours. It's evolution baby!

I don't want to sound like too much of a hippie, but god damn it, we need to love each other. We need to find love for people everywhere. To hell with Machiavelli. Who we need is Dr. King.

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

I know I'm not doing enough. I don't want to give up my cushy life. But, as Bill Hicks might say, we need to get off this ride.