Oh Sweet!

Yes!! Can you believe what luck this is? People were really getting sick of the news and we all knew a ratings plunge was coming. But now with this really sweet assault on Fallujah the nation's TV will remain set to our stations. We can show lots of cool bombs exploding and troops running around and people getting shot. It will be just like a video game except not as honest.

See, in a video game the world is rigid and clearly defined. No matter what, only certain things can happen in a game world because only certain things have been programmed. But in the real world things are less predictable. We might be wrong. It might actually be that killing people isnt such a good idea. It might actually be that war leads to more war. Go figure.

The people probably couldn't handle anything they didnt already know. The people need to see things they already understand. We can't challenge what the people already believe because then they wouldn't watch and Wal-Mart would buy less time. Wal-Mart needs to buy time from us so that we have money to keep on..... to keep on what?

To keep on delivering to people what they already believe.

To keep on stopping short of putting the first amendment to use.

To keep on keeping on.
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Saddam was kept in power by us in the 80's. We gave him the weapons we thought he had, but which he had in fact destroyed after the first Gulf War. So if you really stop and think, we started this war to kill our former selves. And then it turns out that it was just a ghost of our former selves. We are fighting the old us.

So what happens after Saddam is gone? The insurgency, thats what. When Saddam was in power and we were starting the attack, we were the insurgency. Now Saddam is gone and we are in charge and fighting an insurgency of our own. So if you stop and think in terms of a power struggle, we're just trying to end what used to be us. We are fighting the old us.

This is the problem for me. War creates a new need for more war. The damage done to the human family by killing people must be undone by what else? More killing.

And so my few but loyal readers I find that the answer to these troubles (aside from the obvious peace, love, and understanding) comes from the one and only David Gray.

I see the same things
Tired ideas, broken values
Many with the notion that to share is to lose
A hollow people, bound by lack
Of imagination and too much looking back
Without the courage to give a new thing a chance
Grounded by this ignorance!
When the cat comes
We're just birds without wings.

Sing it, man!