I still don't know what's going on
More or less three weeks ago several bombs exploded in my beloved London.
I was so scary for my friends up there, 'cause they always take the underground going to work... Everything was alright, thanks God. Whoever He happens to be.
Some days ago... other bombing in London, and just two days ago, in Egypt.
More then 60 persons died in this attack, among them at least two italian (maybe six).
And I really don't know why. Why those terrorists are putting in so much danger people who do not care for war, who just want to live quietly? Why those bombs are not put in government places or so?! Yeah, I would not be HAPPY if someone in the government die for that, but...at least they took some decisions (and thus some responsibilities) in all this mess.
I've just heard on tv that Al Qaeda, somewhere on Internet, has stated that Rome will become a big cemetery in a brief time. God.
I really would like to say that I'm scared, which is quite near the truth, but still... it isn't REALLY true. I'm angry.
Angry with the terrorists, of course, but angry with those stupid poiticians too.
We were not asked to go to Iraq, USA simply weren't thinking of us to "rescue" the people down there... but our government wanted to go all the same, it almost pleaded with Bush to make us go with them. For what? Petrol? Lands? I still don't know, but surely not to help peace. They told us that we were going to teach them (as they would be some "wild" population) what "democracy" is, without noticing that "democracy" is supposed to be built over popular consensus, and, for what I can see, we just went there and impose our system of view. In my opinion that's dictatorship all the same, only that the place isn't ruled by one person, but by a bunch of people from other states.
Still, I don't say that the soldiers and the volunteers down there are doing something wrong, or that they are evil, vile liars: I only think they don't really know what we're stuck into.
I really don't know why we can't simply tolerate the other human beings without feeling compelled to conquer them, impose our system of thoughts, and trying to spoil them.
The only reasonable thing to do, in my oinion, is to go out from Iraq. Yeah, I know, this will send to the world the message that we are giving in to the terrorists, but, seriously: we are not fighting an army, we are fighting an ideal, a culture. How many other people are prepared to die for this cause?
The only way out that I can see is political: we have to find a diplomatic way.
But first, we have to get out of there.
I really don't know why staying in peace is SO hard.
Ester