As Promised...
Mar. 22nd, 2003 08:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caraigGret googly moogly, what in the world was I thinking of last night? I've been re-reading that last post, and I can only say that I must have been utterly zonked. I mean, really... cocktail weiners?!
The project has beeen turned in and I'm reasonably happy with it. It's about as good as it was going to get, and I imagine it's not too bad. The worst is yet to come, of course, for in the next two months we hae to get our final project/demo reel together. I'm trying not to think about that right now.
What most people who deride the anti-war protesters don't seem to realize, is that some of us have nothing against taking out tinhorn dictators who oppress their people for fun and profit. There's a long and fine tradition of sic semper tyrranus that goes back centuries or even millenia before the Second World War. I can fully support fighting the good fight and fighting for justice and protecting the innocent, of standing in the way of "war's desolation" between it and my friends, family, and loved ones. No, the issue is when one cannot trust what the government's motivations are. I do not have faith that this government's stated reasons for attacking Iraq are what they have told us. Oh, I know there is a plethora of evidence against Iraq for violating the peace treaty and for violating WMD strictures, and that Hussein ordered the use of poison gas against Kurdish rebels in north Iraq. However, I cannot trust this administration, or any other, to have only those reasons for attacking Iraq. If they were the only reasons, why have we waited twelve years before doing this? Maybe I've read The Prince too much, and maybe I've just come to expect governments to follow the path of self-interest more than global or community interest.
I'll leave it at that. My LiveJournal is not for political rants. Besides, it's too bloody depressing.
So! I'm reasonably content right now, despite everything else going on. Saw a bit of The Mask today and having a nostalgic fondness for old cartoons, like Tex Avery's Red Hot Riding Hood and tamer fare such as the classic Looney Tunes. And also finding a craving for swing music; the swing band scene in The Mask was pretty cool. =)
The project has beeen turned in and I'm reasonably happy with it. It's about as good as it was going to get, and I imagine it's not too bad. The worst is yet to come, of course, for in the next two months we hae to get our final project/demo reel together. I'm trying not to think about that right now.
What most people who deride the anti-war protesters don't seem to realize, is that some of us have nothing against taking out tinhorn dictators who oppress their people for fun and profit. There's a long and fine tradition of sic semper tyrranus that goes back centuries or even millenia before the Second World War. I can fully support fighting the good fight and fighting for justice and protecting the innocent, of standing in the way of "war's desolation" between it and my friends, family, and loved ones. No, the issue is when one cannot trust what the government's motivations are. I do not have faith that this government's stated reasons for attacking Iraq are what they have told us. Oh, I know there is a plethora of evidence against Iraq for violating the peace treaty and for violating WMD strictures, and that Hussein ordered the use of poison gas against Kurdish rebels in north Iraq. However, I cannot trust this administration, or any other, to have only those reasons for attacking Iraq. If they were the only reasons, why have we waited twelve years before doing this? Maybe I've read The Prince too much, and maybe I've just come to expect governments to follow the path of self-interest more than global or community interest.
I'll leave it at that. My LiveJournal is not for political rants. Besides, it's too bloody depressing.
So! I'm reasonably content right now, despite everything else going on. Saw a bit of The Mask today and having a nostalgic fondness for old cartoons, like Tex Avery's Red Hot Riding Hood and tamer fare such as the classic Looney Tunes. And also finding a craving for swing music; the swing band scene in The Mask was pretty cool. =)
