From: Christian Weisgerber (naddy@mips.inka.de)
Date: Thu Feb 27 2003 - 19:17:11 MST
Somebody fire the script writer please. This drama is not playing
out the way it should. We were told there would be a war now. Or
armed conflict, military intervention, whatever. You know, pretty
Top Gun-style pictures of military machinery, explosions, the good
stuff from the movies. This was hyped as the TV event of the season,
but so far it has been a big letdown. The audience is disappointed.
All that anticipation has been build up, but there's no war in
sight. Not only has the climax been delayed, it may never happen
at all. Lousy script that.
In case you lack the proper perspective: For all of us, this war
thing is nothing but a TV event. If you consider the global
population, in a first order approximation nobody is involved.
Certainly we in the First World aren't. I guess some Iraqis will
be killed, and Al Jazeera will provide us with some gruesome pictures
(part of any good TV show, of course), but these are strange people
in faraway places nobody would otherwise care about at all. It
will be their ten minutes of fame, they should be thankful for that.
Okay, so there will be some US and British soldiers involved. But
hey, those are paid professionals who joined the military in order
to go to foreign places and kill people there. With some luck,
they may be able to do just that.
It's only pictures in the tube. Really.
-- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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