I was just entering a few new entries into Angstfest (if you haven't read the latest, it's just fab, fab) and it occurred to me the one thing that remains from my teenage years is the feeling of being a misfit. Actually, more like an alien from another galaxy, one where, evidently, they think it's just hysterical to watch some poor schlub fumble through life confused and bewildered.
For instance, this morning it was announced that American tanks are now plowing through the streets of Baghdad. People are happy about this. Men in suits stand behind podiums and talk about 'victory' and 'liberation'. I'm missing something for sure. As far as I can figure it, when one leader who was not democratically elected (Bush) overthrows the government of another leader who was not democratically elected (Saddam) it is a 'victory', and the people who are now left without a leader, a functional infrastructure, several family members, a means of commerce, and basic goods and services are 'liberated'? I know leader #1 has promised to replace all the stuff they lost (except the dead relatives, of course) which I can only guess is for entertainment purposes, so the 'liberated' can look on with delight when it's all sucked up into the power vacuum we just installed in the most fragile and volatile part of the world. Forgive me, but isn't that more like a cruel 'joke'?
Posted by Antigeist at April 9, 2003 10:56 AM