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Hi Avant! don't apologize for saying how you feel! You are right
and it is scary! There is a civil war in Iraq and I am not so certain we need did not set it off! Syria has no intention of preventing insurgents from crossing their borders and have about as much control over that as we have over the Mexican border. I am just sick of all of it! I stopped listening to the news, I just pray for all of us and try to live right and trust in God's way and time resolution will come. blessings!
faholo
posted by
faholo
on February 6, 2007 at 2:47 PM
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Wiley
That's great advice from a seasoned and wise person. Thanks!
posted by
avant-garde
on February 6, 2007 at 2:03 AM
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jacenta
I'm sorry to have vented that way. It's not like me, but sometimes things just appear ridiculous, as they do here.
posted by
avant-garde
on February 6, 2007 at 2:03 AM
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avant-garde
You are there, so that is a huge positive, and there are many others so let's concentrate on that my friend.
posted by
WileyJohn
on February 5, 2007 at 4:49 PM
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avant-garde
posted by
jacentaOld
on February 5, 2007 at 4:46 AM
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Bhaskar
Well, one good thing is that we have the right to speak out, if we feel the need to.
posted by
avant-garde
on February 5, 2007 at 2:33 AM
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Tanga
I think all the good in the world is blotted out by an act of arrogant aggression.
posted by
avant-garde
on February 5, 2007 at 2:32 AM
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malcolm
Yes, it's sad to reflect upon.
posted by
avant-garde
on February 5, 2007 at 2:32 AM
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blogflogger
Living in the country definitely has its advantages. I don't hear about any violence, other than an occasional ass-whuppin'.
posted by
avant-garde
on February 5, 2007 at 2:31 AM
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Whinge
It's a convoluted mess, which isn't going away anytime soon.
posted by
avant-garde
on February 5, 2007 at 2:31 AM
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Presley
It's not. It's obvious.
posted by
avant-garde
on February 5, 2007 at 2:30 AM
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richinstore
I hate being a rabble rouser, but in this case I've made an exception.
posted by
avant-garde
on February 5, 2007 at 2:29 AM
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blogflogger
Sounds like you've been discovered. Any news?
posted by
avant-garde
on February 5, 2007 at 2:29 AM
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TAPS
Me, too. It's disheartening.
posted by
avant-garde
on February 5, 2007 at 2:28 AM
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Whacky
I think being in Iraq is a mistake. I'm not sure what the alternatives would be, but it's obvious that the violence is escalating.
posted by
avant-garde
on February 5, 2007 at 2:28 AM
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Avant
I fully support your viewpoint, and that's the way it should be,IMHO.
posted by
Bhaskar.ing
on February 5, 2007 at 1:34 AM
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Unfortunately the actions of a few
can be detrimental to the masses. The current feeling amongst many Africans is that the US are simply bullies and interfere only when the outcome would be beneficial for them. They too easily forget about all the foreign aid pouring in from the US that keeps many of these countries going.
posted by
Tanga
on February 4, 2007 at 11:10 PM
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Personal agendas
crossed the Atlantic also. I keep thinking about Ho Chi Minh
posted by
malcolm
on February 4, 2007 at 12:35 PM
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It's time to log off and head for bed, night, Avant
posted by
blogflogger
on February 3, 2007 at 11:36 PM
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Avant, I have visited this blog several times yesterday and today. I just don't know what to say. I can't really comment. Just letting you know that I am here and like everyone, I am concerned about man's relationship with himself, i.e., his fellow man. MoonSpirit 
posted by
syzygy
on February 3, 2007 at 8:08 PM
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You have a right to just be here to socialize, Avant, and unwind.
You have a stressful job and I can only imagine how much you must need time alone with your family, dogs and being out in the woods. I am longing for that myself.
posted by
blogflogger
on February 3, 2007 at 7:46 PM
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I hear it's time to move on, again, Avant. Keep in touch. I'll be moving
to a new life, in a new town next month. I just dyed my hair today.
posted by
blogflogger
on February 3, 2007 at 5:56 PM
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Jim Morrison said it best: "No time to wallow in the mire".
Break on through to the other side, of which too many of us with psychic gifts spend a lot of time in trying to re-connect to the mundane world, which often is cold and unfeeling to those prophets who stumble through the streets in a psychotic state, screaming the words of the spirits.
No need to apologize for your seclusion, I am moving to the country myself in a month to seclude myself from these mean streets, which have gotten meaner, and some of them are the yuppies who would run you down in their precious Beemers, of which they will not give up to make the steel for the tanks, as our country did in World War II, the last declared and justifiable war of self-defense agaiinst real atrocity and defending the homeland. Homeland Security, my sweet aunt Fanny, it's another Orwellian mind-trick, in which speaking the truth is a crime.
posted by
blogflogger
on February 3, 2007 at 1:38 PM
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You're absolutely 100% right, and regrettably people haven't realised it
till now. The very terrorists that we were fighting were armed by Bush's father & his friends! The American people have been f*d, & it's only now that a lot of people are beginning to wake up to it. I can go on & on & on, maybe I'll write something later. (Typed for
Mr. Whinge who poked his head in to see what I was reading. So I'm a secretary on my days off as well!)
posted by
CringeintheUSA
on February 3, 2007 at 11:51 AM
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Avant
I'm not passionate about religion nor politics either, but I do recognize that what we're doing in Iraq at the present
IS NOT WORKING!
posted by
Presley
on February 3, 2007 at 8:42 AM
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avant-garde
you're absolutely correct.
posted by
richinstore
on February 3, 2007 at 6:20 AM
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Well said, Avant, and your dispassionate stance lends you credibility.
Don't discount your own voice, just because you've stayed out of the political arena. Your opinion is as valid as any other's, perhaps more so.
posted by
blogflogger
on February 3, 2007 at 2:03 AM
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Avant-garde
What we need to do and what we do do seem to be two different things. The multitudinous blogs (not just on Blogit) do not seem to be changing anything. The Democratic Majority doesn't seem to be making any kind of a difference (at least not yet and not that I can see). I am not a negative person but I'm having trouble keeping negativity at bay on this one.
posted by
TAPS.
on February 2, 2007 at 7:18 PM
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We aren't the good guys anymore and that is sad.
-^..^-
Bo
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Whacky
on February 2, 2007 at 6:41 PM
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Ariel
You have a great point. This is a mere insurgency. However, we very well might be causing cohesiveness among factions that otherwise would be fighting one another. I think that we will wise up and pull out, even if at a little at a time. The majority of Americans feel this to be the right thing to do.
I don't think it's too late. But, it is late in the game.
posted by
avant-garde
on February 2, 2007 at 3:49 PM
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Rcky
It might not be too late. We could enact a strategy that does not allow us to go deeper into the quagmire, and at the same time contain what is left to accomplish. I think it is inevitable that Iraq is going to succumb to the environment surrounding it. They are not Israel.
posted by
avant-garde
on February 2, 2007 at 3:47 PM
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slam
Perhaps it is too far gone to just pull away. Yet, I have a feeling that terrorism here would not flourish, as it has not in the U.K. The whole thing is heartwrenching to bear witness to.
posted by
avant-garde
on February 2, 2007 at 3:45 PM
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Avant
Like Rocky, I've lived thro' some pretty turbulent times, the 1930s and 40s etc, and I think that almost everyone in here is far too defeatist and pessimistic.
I'm not saying that I approve of the Iraq War, and the one in Afghanistan, nor that they aren't stupid. To see what I mean, just Google Kut el Amarna, and Gundamuck ( Gandamak ) to see the sheer folly of any intervention in either of those places. And the Balkans too, come to that.
But the Iraq war is an insurgency, and what history tells us is that insurgencies almost invariably fail to achieve their aims.
Sufficient troops in Iraq would probably bear this out.
posted by
ariel70
on February 2, 2007 at 3:11 PM
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Hi Avant...I've lived through some tumultuous times but there always
seemed to be hope. I have never seen the world in this condition as you described in your post and I am sorry to say I feel "hopeless." We need more people out there to make our voices heard and make some needed changes such as we did with the last election but somehow I feel it may be a bit too late.
posted by
RckyMtnActivist
on February 2, 2007 at 3:02 PM
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Too deep!
Sadly I think, you in the US and us in the UK are dug in too deep to walk away from it. Bad mistake in the first place, but once the troops come home, the terror is going to come looking for us.
Please see if there are any writing opportunities for you on my Writer Wanted page: http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/slam/
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slam
on February 2, 2007 at 2:48 PM
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