From: John Grigg (starman2100@lycos.com)
Date: Fri Feb 28 2003 - 23:28:51 MST
Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> 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
Christian,
So..., you don't feel this is playing out to be a truly heartfelt drama on the world stage which will deeply affect us? Well, all I can say is that this is probably NOT going to be anything as definite and clearcut as a big-budget Hollywood production where the protagonist triumphs against the baddies in the end with every worry gone.
Afterall, where was Jack Ryan when those planes flew into the World Trade Center? And where will he or James Bond be when in retaliation for the western occupation of Iraq, a large American city loses at least several hundred-thousand people (if not several million) to a bio-weapon, plutonium dispersal bomb, or a low kiloton nuke?
If such a nightmare occurs, suddenly this "tv war" will become horrifying real to not only the friends and relatives of the dead, but to an entire nation and globe. THE WORLD WILL THEN TRULY NEVER BE THE SAME. It will be like we branched off into a parallel universe we don't want to inhabit.
I tend to think a big part of the reason Western Europeans are protesting the possible war so much is that they suspect the terrorists may decide to go after the "European Satan" by maiming one of its cities if the U.S. does move forward to occupy Iraq.
Still feeling so callous about things?
John
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