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[jenabeen1184]

Queer as Folk: Series Finale; weak writing. generally, didn't like it, though I balled my eyes out anyway. Details to ensue shortly.

Six Feet Under: Season 5, Episode 61; Wow. Just...wow.

Addendum: Found out late Friday/early Saturday morning that my good friend Lindsay's ex-boyfriend recently died in Iraq. R.I.P.I, honestly, am unwilling to

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[jenabeen1184]

I don't necessarily disagree with you, however, I am not willing to do the same for someone else, as far as this war is concerned.

The trouble I find with the concept of an all-volunteer army is knowing the government, military, and those who blindly follow their lead convince themselves that its' servicemen and women are more easily-disposable because of a, "well, they knew what they were getting themselves into"-mentality, which, just as a civilian, I find extremely offensive. Again, I'm not entirely sure if "disposable" is the proper way of describing it, but that is certainly how I interpret it. And, I know I'm not alone.

What I am (very inarticulately, by the way) trying to explain is how appauling I find it to hear, with great confidence and presumption, those who support the war are only willing to defend it at home and not abroad. Chickenhawks, more precisely.

I am not in support for this war and unwilling to stadle up, per se, for a war I believe to be immoral.

Therefore, I didn't join any branch of the military, argue left and right with those who are politically opposite to be every chance I get, support candidates I believe are best-fit to execute inevitable failure in Iraq and get this country slightly back in the right direction, and urge all my government representatives to bring our troops home as quickly as possible.

Maybe I should clarify my above statement: I am unwilling to accept the idea that my freedoms are worth other people's lives. I refuse to force others to do the very things I, myself, am unwilling to do.

Which, frustratingly, brings up even more topics of confusion. Liberty or Security? Qualitative Life or Quanitative Life? Truth or Comfort? Do we even have a right to preference of any kind, and (if we do) how does our preference affect my life, my neighbors' lives, and the society I live in?

I'm starting to understand, unfortunately, that most people never have and never will look at life, let alone democracy, that way.

The answers to these very questions, not any political party affliatopms, are what really divides this country, and, because of that great division, we will never be truely free or secure, some of our lifes will be abruptly shortened and most of us will physically survive while feeling we have nothing to survive for or wondering if all the suffering is really worth it, and neither know the full truth nor be ever really comfortable with ourselves.

To some up this very long reply, I think the generality of my thoughts can be summed up by something you've already said, "I'm proud to be an American. As to what's done in the name of America, that's another story."