state of the union
i must admit that i cried when the Iraqi woman hugged the woman who's son died in Iraq. I'm not sure why. Was I sad that the man had to die, or happy that the woman was free? I guess it was good to see them together, like now the Iraqi woman could thank the American woman for the sacrifice her son made to help Iraq. Even if it wasn't really helping America. i don't like the way that sounds because it's like, selfish. like we only care about helping Americans, a select group of people. and that isn't what i mean. i think it would be great if more of the world could be free, but it's very complicated stuff this democracy, and it's very hard to impose it on a country from outside. and i don't think it's our place. all i could think of when he promised all that money to Palestine was what we could do with that here in America, where we're supposed to spending it. i don't have statistics for you on what it could do or how many kids it could send to college or whatever, and no doubt the Palestinians need it more... but I dunno, i just think the American people should come before our semi-imperialist goals of world domination. ;)
and also: democracy without the proper checks and balances is scary. like, what if the insurgents were a majority in Iraq. Then we wouldn't want elections. the power of the majority in an unchecked democracy is dangerous. the american system is very complicated, and we haven't imposed all that in Iraq, and i don't think we should. but we have to... i don't even know. it's a slippery slope and we ought never to have started this.
and also: democracy without the proper checks and balances is scary. like, what if the insurgents were a majority in Iraq. Then we wouldn't want elections. the power of the majority in an unchecked democracy is dangerous. the american system is very complicated, and we haven't imposed all that in Iraq, and i don't think we should. but we have to... i don't even know. it's a slippery slope and we ought never to have started this.