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Today was my day off, and since I probably won't get another one until next Wednesday, I thought I would do absolutely as little as posible today. Which I did. I amaze myself sometimes at the sheer amount of time I can waste.
I did manage to get around to a few things, namely hanging out with Stephanie at IHOP, wash my car, visit my uncle and cousins, and watch Sex in the City 2. I have to say that while I enjoy SITC in a sitting at home, "Oh, it's on now, I guess I'll watch it" kind of way, what actually made the movie enjoyable for me was the enthusiastic, midnight showing crowd. And the three Gummy Bear Martinis.
On a less frivolous note, I'm a little intrigued by the lack of alarm that people seem to have about the impending conflict with North Korea. Okay, so I might be spreading some fear propaganda by using the word "impending", but if we don't tread carefully, N. Korea might actually feel the need to back up its bluff with some unnecessary bloodshed. I mean, it's tough already since an international group has determined that it was indeed a North Korean submarine that fired a torpedo at a South Korean warship, killing almost 50 men. Lots of people are demanding something more substantial, more satisfying than trade bans and stern words. There's even something in me that wishes we could just do away with Kim Jong Il like we did Saddam.
But it's not as simple as that. The tangle of China's interests is complicated enough, not even taking into consideration how the capital of S. Korea, Seoul, is a mere 50 miles away from the border. My mother's entire family lives there. There are more than a million soldiers in the N Korean army, and while their armament might be hardly above the level of the Cold War, it can still wipe Seoul off the map. Never mind that the N Korean people have been systematically brainwashed for the last 50 years to despise us, and would never suffer invasion. That was why it was decided to drop bombs on Japan instead of invading: the cost of life would be too much, on both sides. Dropping a nuke hardly seems feasible, however, in this era of de-armament: plus it's not going to solve the problem of trying to win the Korean people of either side. But how can you create dissent in a country that not only roots out and destroys any whispers of contrariness, but controls all forms of media, and has brainwashed its captive audience for so long?
Ugh, note to self: Gummy Bear Martinis make me too passionate. Save for later use ^_^
I did manage to get around to a few things, namely hanging out with Stephanie at IHOP, wash my car, visit my uncle and cousins, and watch Sex in the City 2. I have to say that while I enjoy SITC in a sitting at home, "Oh, it's on now, I guess I'll watch it" kind of way, what actually made the movie enjoyable for me was the enthusiastic, midnight showing crowd. And the three Gummy Bear Martinis.
On a less frivolous note, I'm a little intrigued by the lack of alarm that people seem to have about the impending conflict with North Korea. Okay, so I might be spreading some fear propaganda by using the word "impending", but if we don't tread carefully, N. Korea might actually feel the need to back up its bluff with some unnecessary bloodshed. I mean, it's tough already since an international group has determined that it was indeed a North Korean submarine that fired a torpedo at a South Korean warship, killing almost 50 men. Lots of people are demanding something more substantial, more satisfying than trade bans and stern words. There's even something in me that wishes we could just do away with Kim Jong Il like we did Saddam.
But it's not as simple as that. The tangle of China's interests is complicated enough, not even taking into consideration how the capital of S. Korea, Seoul, is a mere 50 miles away from the border. My mother's entire family lives there. There are more than a million soldiers in the N Korean army, and while their armament might be hardly above the level of the Cold War, it can still wipe Seoul off the map. Never mind that the N Korean people have been systematically brainwashed for the last 50 years to despise us, and would never suffer invasion. That was why it was decided to drop bombs on Japan instead of invading: the cost of life would be too much, on both sides. Dropping a nuke hardly seems feasible, however, in this era of de-armament: plus it's not going to solve the problem of trying to win the Korean people of either side. But how can you create dissent in a country that not only roots out and destroys any whispers of contrariness, but controls all forms of media, and has brainwashed its captive audience for so long?
Ugh, note to self: Gummy Bear Martinis make me too passionate. Save for later use ^_^