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I am glad your son is home.
And you are right about many leaders needing ousting.
posted by
justAcarpenter
on March 19, 2005 at 9:23 PM
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It is wonderful that your son made it back, RAME,
without a scratch. And it also is terrible that he got hurt shortly thereafter. But, and I hate to sound cliche, but that's the way it goes. We have very little control over our destinies. What little we do have can make us millionaires or get us killed by inattention to detail. As Tennyson said: "Our is not to reason why, ours is but to do and die..."
But what do I think about Iraq, Iran, the whole Middle East question, al-Qaeda, our president and the current state of politics in this country? Take a look at a few of my blogs. It's not hard to see where I stand.
This is a good post, RAME. It makes one think of opportunities and the strangeness of occurrences, favorable and not. Of the whys of it all...
posted by
saul_relative
on March 18, 2005 at 5:49 PM
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I always picture beating the sh*! out of my attacker - but I've never actuall been attacked. Whenever anyone threatens me I always step up like I'm ready to fight them and they back off. LOL. I'm 5'3", never have been able to figure out why I scare them so much.
posted by
DarrkeThoughts
on March 18, 2005 at 1:52 PM
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attracting violence
i worked in a large city when i first became a medic. i deliberately chose the high crime area for the experience. i liked the excitement, but i didn't realize that by associating with it i was attracting it. when we think about being attacked, we are picturing in our minds. the mind is a wonderfully creative tool that brings experience. when we use fear to direct our actions, we are placing faith in it. we think about the danger. we talk about what is out there. we build up our defenses to protect ourselves from it. we draw more of it to us. believe me, i drew a lot of negative experiences from that stint i spent years ago. it is all very clear to me now. back then, i was merely calling it coincidences. there are no such things.
posted by
avant-garde
on March 18, 2005 at 1:38 PM
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I'm glad your boy made it home safe and sound. I hate that we think we have to police the world. I think it's all about the oil though, so we may be safe from the next war over a bad leader...at least I can hope so.
posted by
DarrkeThoughts
on March 17, 2005 at 2:50 PM
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