It ain’t over . . .
Peggy has given up:
Does it occur to the average warmonger that he or she is now ‘out of work’ too? Maybe, maybe not.
I am not out of work. I still will hope and I will pray for the lives of our troops and the lives of the people of Baghdad.
Surely only the most ignorant and hateful among them can be feeling good about all the brand-new suffering and horror about to be unleashed in Iraq, right?
That’s fairly self explanatory. However, some folks are likely feeling the relief of getting it over with.
And surely the most honest among pro-war intellectuals would admit that they, too, fear the unknown and unknowable costs -human, spiritual, cultural, political, economic – of this invasion, right?
Sure they do. But they’ve weighed those costs against the known costs of not invading.
