[geeks] Re: [rescue] The war begins....

[Kyle Webb]

At 11:32 PM 10/7/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Why does it feel bad?  Don't you think we should pursue justice, and to 
>protect our country from further attacks from terrorists?  The attack on 
>the WTC clearly demonstrates that the Al quida (spelling) group isn't 
>interested in being peaceful.


Perhaps because it's a nasty dirty job that has to be done.
War feels to me like disfiguring surgery for cancer. You wish there was a 
better solution, but there isn't so you grit your teeth and get on with it, 
accepting the losses that come with the goal. Oh yes, there's opportunity 
for lives to improve because of it (the Afghans getting a better 
government), and it's utterly needed to stop evil bastards like Al Quaeda, 
but the process itself doesn't feel good.
I'm former Army, and whenever there's a war that I feel is needed, I always 
feel uncomfortable for not being there, for not being part of it. It's not 
that I have any illusions about it, and my individual contribution would be 
insignificant (ain't that the way life always is). I just am always a 
little uncomfortable when someone else is the one who's taking the risk and 
the discomfort for military action that I am in favor of. I guess it's sort 
of like the feeling that you have to shoot your own dog, you can't have 
someone else do it.

Kyle Webb